August Kleinzahler
August Kleinzahler published his first book of poetry, A Calendar of Airs, in 1978. In 2003, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published The Strange Hours Travelers Keep, which won the 2004 Griffin International Poetry Prize. His collection of poetry, Sleeping It Off in Rapid City, won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award. He is also the author of the prose books Cutty, One Rock: Low Characters and Strange Places, Gently Explained (FSG, 2004) and Music: I-LXXIV (Pressed Wafer, 2009), and the winner of the 2008 Lannan Literary Award for Poetry and the 2017 American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award. A native of Fort Lee, New Jersey, Kleinzahler currently lives in San Francisco.
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Sallies, Romps, Portraits, and Send-Offs
August Kleinzahler
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Sixteen years’ worth of incisive essays by the great poet and memoirist
“Witty, gritty poet and memoirist Kleinzahler” (Publishers Weekly) has gathered the best of sixteen...
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Before Dawn on Bluff Road / Hollyhocks in the Fog
August Kleinzahler
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A collection of August Kleinzahler’s best poems, divided—like his life—between New Jersey and San Francisco
When August Kleinzahler won the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize for his collection...
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The Hotel Oneira
August Kleinzahler
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A thrilling new collection from one of the most original poets of his generation
"His work is a modernist swirl of sex, surrealism, urban life, and melancholy with...
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Sleeping It Off in Rapid City
August Kleinzahler
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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...
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Cutty, One Rock
August Kleinzahler
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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...
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The Strange Hours Travelers Keep
August Kleinzahler
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
August Kleinzahler's new poems stretch and go places he has never gone before: They have his signature high color and rhythmic jump, but they take on a breadth of voice and achieve registers that...
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Live from the Hong Kong Nile Club
August Kleinzahler
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The early poems of an American master
"I have loved the air outside Shop-Rite Liquor
on summer evenings
better than the Marin hills at dusk
lavender and...
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Green Sees Things in Waves
August Kleinzahler
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
In this powerful and inventive collection, August Kleinzahler succeeds in creating a new idiom for American lyric...
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Red Sauce, Whiskey and Snow
August Kleinzahler
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
This is a book of jazzy, edgy, adventuresome poems from the author of Earthquake Weather and Like Cities, Like Storms. Ever aware, ever vivid, ever focused, Kleinzahler's are some of the...
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