- Paperback: 80 pages
- Publisher: Faber and Faber (16 Nov 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0571195059
- ISBN-13: 978-0571195053
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.4 x 0.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 846,587 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A collection of poems which reflects the idioms and textures of American life.
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Format:Paperback
A classic volume from arguably the most exciting of contemporary poets now writing in English. Kleinzahler here retains all his trademark panache, wit and spooky blending of street and science talk but really hits home with a set of poems especially interested in the vulnerability of the human heart.
The title poem is justly one of his most famous - a highly inventive inhabitation of an acid-blown mind on the edge but it is one of a number of emotionally potent pieces here: the cinematic 'Snow on North Jersey', 'A Flock of Blackbirds', 'Watching Young Couples...', the surreal 'The Dog Stoltz', and particularly 'Sunday Morning', the simple, but visceral rendering of a homeless man's attachment to his dog that smells of 'bones, urine, soup' all shine in their tenderness and generosity. Highly recommended.
The title poem is justly one of his most famous - a highly inventive inhabitation of an acid-blown mind on the edge but it is one of a number of emotionally potent pieces here: the cinematic 'Snow on North Jersey', 'A Flock of Blackbirds', 'Watching Young Couples...', the surreal 'The Dog Stoltz', and particularly 'Sunday Morning', the simple, but visceral rendering of a homeless man's attachment to his dog that smells of 'bones, urine, soup' all shine in their tenderness and generosity. Highly recommended.
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Kleinzahler's masterpiece
26 July 2000
Format:Hardcover
With this book, August Kleinzahler -- already one of those fascinating poets who makes you glad that you live in the present moment -- has given us a strong, strange, unique and utterly memorable collection of poems. In poems like "Snow in New Jersey" and "Uttar Pradesh" he combines the textures and techniques of a short story writer with the roving eye of a documentary film-maker using a hand-held camera that allows him to venture anywhere and everywhere, with the result that the reader never knows where he is going next. There is more of a concern here with language in itself, that is, language considered as more than a mere medium of representation, than in his previous work (see "52 Pick-up"); yet at the same time, the new poems show more narrative and a greater facility for following complex, often associative patterns of thought. Best of all are the surprises -- to take just one (although admittedly my favorite) example, the twelfth line of "The Dog Stoltz," which practically knocked me off my feet. Kleinzahler's new poems are so contemporary, so accurate, so detailed, and so relevant that they put the front page of the New York Times to shame.
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