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 gold
stretching miles to the sea.

At the junction, up from the synagogue
a weeknight, necessarily
and with my father--
a sale on German beer.

Air full of living dust:
bus exhaust, air-borne grains of pizza crust
wounded crystals
appearing, disappearing
among streetlights and unsuccessful neon."
--"Poetics"

August Kleinzahler's first collections won him a cult following but have long been out of print and hard to find. Here Kleinzahler--acclaimed by The Times (London) for the "vision and confident skill to make American poetry new"--has selected the best of the poems collected in Storm over Hackensack (1985) and Earthquake Weather (1989) and added an autobiographical Preface.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 05/15/2000
ISBN: 9780374527013
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.44w x 0.33d

Review Citations: Booklist 03/15/2000 pg. 1317
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2000 pg. 603
Publishers Weekly 05/29/2000 pg. 78
Library Journal 05/01/2000 pg. 118
Publishers Weekly 05/22/2000