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

by August Kleinzahler

Overview

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."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780374531737
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	03/31/2009
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

August Kleinzahler was born in Jersey City in 1949. He is the author of ten books of poems and a memoir, Cutty, One Rock. His most recent book of poetry, The Strange Hours Travelers Keep, was awarded the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize. He lives in San Francisco.

Editorial Reviews

Offbeat, off hand, subtle, and unsettling . . . Longer acquaintance with Kleinzahler's verse brings greater admiration.” —The Voice Literary Supplement

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