Book details
The Strange Hours Travelers Keep
Poems
Author: August Kleinzahler



The Strange Hours Travelers Keep
$17.00
About This Book
Page Count
112
On Sale
11/04/2004
Book Details
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 his earlier work only hinted at. Ranging from Las Vegas and Mayfair to contemporary Berlin, these poems touch down at will in tableaux where Liberace unceremoniously meets with St. Kevin and Gustav Mahler with Ava Gardner. This is the strongest collection to date from a poet "equally at home anywhere between the jets and the steppes" (Alexsandar Hemon, Poetry).
Imprint Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN
9780374529413
In The News
“A wonder wall of impossibly strange headlines, found poetry . . . A menacing, nasty iambic fest which must be heard a viva voce, in the poet's broad New Jersey vowels and clipped diction . . . Thank the muses [for] August Kleinzahler.” —Peter Spagnuolo, The Brooklyn Rail