false 96286 1 1 622260 0374529418 9780374529413 5 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176407276m/622260.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176407276s/622260.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/622260.The_Strange_Hours_Travelers_Keep_Poems 3.85 41 Poetry).
]]> 96286 3.92 240 42 2003 622263 0374525846 9780374525842 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176407279m/622263.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176407279s/622263.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/622263.Green_Sees_Things_in_Waves 3.97 38
In this powerful and inventive collection, August Kleinzahler succeeds in creating a new idiom for American lyric poetry that captures the velocity and swerves of contemporary life in the city. He pushes the language very hard to get there, and the results are breathtaking: an angular, propulsive poetry that transforms character, voice, and setting into buzzing, luminous events.
]]> 96286 3.92 240 42 1998 622259 0374530181 9780374530181 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176407276m/622259.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176407276s/622259.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/622259.Cutty_One_Rock_Low_Characters_and_Strange_Places_Gently_Explained 4.17 35 Cutty, One Rock takes the reader on a wild journey by airplane, bus, ferry, and foot from childhood to early manhood in the company of a New Jersey family in equal measures cultivated and deranged. We witness scenes of passionate, even violent intensity that give rise to meditations on eros and literature, the solitariness of travel, and the poetics of place.

These individual pieces, most of which first appeared in The London Review of Books and won an international cult following, are by turns "poignant, surreal, down home and lyrical, a mixture of qualities that inheres in his language with uncommon delicacy and effect" (Leonard Michaels). Together they make up an intellectual and emotional autobiography on the run. The book's final section, about Kleinzahler's adored, doomed older brother, is unforgettable, and since its appearance last year in the LRB, has already entered the literature as one of the most moving contemporary memoirs.</DIV>]]> 96286 3.92 240 42 2004 2489207 0374265836 9780374265830 14 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2489207.Sleeping_It_Off_in_Rapid_City_Poems_New_and_Selected 3.81 37 The first broad retrospective of August Kleinzahler’s career, Sleeping It Off in Rapid City gathers poems from his major works along with a rich portion of new poems that visit different voice registers, experiment with form and length, and confirm Kleinzahler as among the most inventive and brilliant poets of our time. Travel—actual and imaginary—remains a passion and inspiration, and in these pages the poet also finds “This sanctified ground / Here, yes, here / The dead solid center of the universe / At the heart of the heart of America.”

</DIV>]]> 96286 3.92 240 42 2008 165706 0374524726 9780374524722 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172342144m/165706.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172342144s/165706.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/165706.Red_Sauce_Whiskey_Snow_Poems 3.89 27 96286 3.92 240 42 1995 622262 0374527016 9780374527013 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176407278m/622262.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176407278s/622262.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/622262.Live_from_the_Hong_Kong_Nile_Club_Poems_1975_1990 4.09 23
"I have loved the air outside Shop-Rite Liquor
on summer evenings
better than the Marin hills at dusk
lavender and gold
stretching miles to the sea.

At the junction, up from the synagogue
a weeknight, necessarily
and with my father--
a sale on German beer.

Air full of living dust:
bus exhaust, air-borne grains of pizza crust
wounded crystals
appearing, disappearing
among streetlights and unsuccessful neon."
--"Poetics"

August Kleinzahler's first collections won him a cult following but have long been out of print and hard to find. Here Kleinzahler--acclaimed by The Times (London) for the "vision and confident skill to make American poetry new"--has selected the best of the poems collected in Storm over Hackensack (1985) and Earthquake Weather (1989) and added an autobiographical Preface.
]]> 96286 3.92 240 42 2000 622258 0918825083 9780918825087 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/622258.Storm_over_Hackensack 3.50 6 96286 3.92 240 42 1985 549968 0918825989 9780918825988 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/549968.Earthquake_Weather 4.20 5 96286 3.92 240 42 1989 6871411 0978515692 9780978515690 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6871411-music 5.00 2 96286 3.92 240 42 2009 5630706 0330273213 9780330273213 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5630706.Like_cities_like_storms 4.00 1 96286 3.92 240 42 1992