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Earthquake Weather
Book by Kleinzahler, August
- GenresPoetry
79 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1989
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August Kleinzahler
43 books47 followersAugust Kleinzahler was born in Jersey City in 1949. He is the author of eleven books of poems and a memoir, "Cutty, One Rock." His collection "The Strange Hours Travelers Keep" was awarded the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize, and "Sleeping It Off in Rapid City" won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award. That same year he received a Lannan Literary Award. His new collection, "The Hotel Oneira," will be published by FSG October 1st, 2013. He lives in San Francisco.
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May 30, 2008
Every young poet had a Poet whom they wished they could be; for me, it was Kleinzahler; for me, it was Earthquake Weather. Perfect, poignant and sly, this slim volume evoked all I wanted to be: loose yet perfectly on-toe; a use of the language that seemed graceful and fecund and terse and lyrical all at the same time. "Sinewy" they call it, though August would more likely prefer the term "labile" to describe it.
A day doesn't go by that I don't quote something from this piece of Fin-de-Nouveau-Siecle scripture. Can't say I'm much into what he's done after getting on FSG (too studied, too over-the-shoulder) but God for one moment he was Golden; his was, as Borges said, "that Ithaca of green eternity, not of wonders".
A day doesn't go by that I don't quote something from this piece of Fin-de-Nouveau-Siecle scripture. Can't say I'm much into what he's done after getting on FSG (too studied, too over-the-shoulder) but God for one moment he was Golden; his was, as Borges said, "that Ithaca of green eternity, not of wonders".
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