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

by 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 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"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374527016
• ISBN13: 9780374527013
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.2"