Sleeping It Off in Rapid City: Poems, New and Selected

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."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 03/31/2009
ISBN: 9780374531737
Pages: 234
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.46w x 0.72d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 05/24/2009 pg. 20