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Live from the Hong Kong Nile Club : Poems: 1975-1990
Live from the Hong Kong Nile Club Poems 19751990
Author: August Kleinzahler
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 ...  more »

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.
ISBN-13: 9780374527013
ISBN-10: 0374527016
Publication Date: 5/15/2000
Pages: 112
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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