Sleeping It Off in Rapid City

Poems

August Kleinzahler

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The first broad retrospective of August Kleinzahler’s career, Sleeping It Ofƒ 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 heartof the heart of America.”

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Praise for August Kleinzahler:
 
"[Kleinzahler's] scope is large, his diction wildly exact, his line inventive, his means varied, and he never condescends." --Maureen N. McLane, The New York Times Book Review
 
"Erudite, restless, intellectually curious, alert to what goes on around him from the moment he opens his eyes in the morning, [Kleinzahler] brings to mind Frank O'Hara . . . Wonderful." --Charles Simic, The New York Review of Books
 
"Kleinzahler mixes the pungent and the delicate, the literary and the colloquial, to create a fine, technicolor-like excess." --John Palattella, The Los Angeles Times
“Kleinzahler is perhaps America’s most linguistically gifted poet . . . Exquisitely fresh.” —John Freeman, San Francisco Chronicle

“[Kleinzahler] is, first and last, a craftsman, a maker of lines . . . He never says more than he should . . . and keeps his focus not on the man who speaks the poems . . . but on what that man sees and on what he can hear.”—Stephen Burt, The New York Times Book Review

“Offbeat, off hand, subtle, and unsettling . . . Longer acquaintance with Kleinzahler’s verse brings greater admiration.”—The Voice Literary Supplement

 

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August Kleinzahler

August Kleinzahler was born in Jersey City in 1949. He is the author of ten books of poems and a memoir, Cutty, One Rock. His most recent book of poetry, The Strange Hours Travelers Keep, was awarded the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize. He lives in San Francisco.

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Sleeping It Off in Rapid City
Poems
August Kleinzahler

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
March 2009
Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780374531737
ISBN10: 0374531730
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 256 pages
$16.00
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April 2008
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