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About the Author
August Kleinzahler was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1949. He is the author of more than a dozen books of poems and a memoir, Cutty, One Rock. His collection The Strange Hours Travelers Keep was awarded the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize, and Sleeping It Off in Rapid City won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. That same year he received a Lannan Literary Award. He lives in San Francisco.
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Books by August Kleinzahler
The Letters of Thom Gunn
By August Kleinzahler
A History of Western Music
By August Kleinzahler
Snow Approaching on the Hudson
By August Kleinzahler
Before Dawn on Bluff Road / Hollyhocks in the Fog
By August Kleinzahler
Sallies, Romps, Portraits, and Send-Offs
By August Kleinzahler
The Hotel Oneira
By August Kleinzahler
Sleeping It Off in Rapid City
By August Kleinzahler
Selected Poems
By August Kleinzahler
The Strange Hours Travelers Keep
By August Kleinzahler
Live from the Hong Kong Nile Club
By August Kleinzahler
Green Sees Things in Waves
By August Kleinzahler
Red Sauce, Whiskey and Snow
By August Kleinzahler