Tag: August Kleinzahler

Books of poems: gwallter’s top 10

December 8, 2023 6 Comments
Books of poems: gwallter’s top 10

For want of shelf space, I’m having to lay new books horizontally, on top of earlier books.  They threaten to warp and then turn solid, like sedimentary rocks.  Soon I’ll need to have another cull.  I doubt, though, whether the censor will make much of an impression on the three-shelf-long poetry collection.  Books of poems […]

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August Kleinzahler’s mother

February 15, 2019 2 Comments
August Kleinzahler’s mother

One of the benefits of being able to wander round a really big bookshop – I was in London, in the huge Waterstones in Piccadilly – is that you come across books that you’d be very unlikely to stumble across in a smaller shop – let alone on the imaginary shelves of the appalling Amazon. […]

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August Kleinzahler v Google: knowledge in excess

August 1, 2015 1 Comment
August Kleinzahler v Google: knowledge in excess

For my money the liveliest American poet at the present is August Kleinzahler. I first came across him in his collection Sleeping it off in Rapid City (2008), a title that says a lot about his themes and his expression. He’s quite well known on this side of the Atlantic – Faber now publishes him, […]

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