Live from the Hong Kong Nile Club: Poems: 1975-1990

By August Kleinzahler

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374527016
• ISBN13: 9780374527013
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.2"