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Sleeping It Off in Rapid City
Poems, New and Selected
Author: August Kleinzahler
Sleeping It Off in Rapid City
$11.99
About This Book
Book Details
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."
Imprint Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN
9781466880764
In The News
“[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 on The Strange Hours Travelers Keep
“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 on The Strange Hours Travelers Keep
“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 on The Strange Hours Travelers Keep
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Sleeping It Off in Rapid City