- Paperback: 110 pages
- Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux (May 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0374527016
- ISBN-13: 978-0374527013
- Product Dimensions: 20.9 x 13.8 x 0.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,378,763 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Kleinzahler is a contemporary American poet whose work has only recently begun to receive the recognition it so richly deserves on this side of the Atlantic. This selection of his early work is probably the best place to start: it's more immediately accessible and intimate than some of the later poetry (which has its own, different merits).
What makes Kleinzahler's poetry so intriguing is his fusion of the traditionally elegiac with a cranky, postmodern blend of vocabularies. Classical verse, industrial jargon, biological precision and street talk all jostle for position. This is poetry for the internet age: democratic, funky yet still emotionally charged and moving. The book contains what, to my mind, are many of Kleinzahler's best poems including 'Where Souls Go', 'Poetics', 'Sunset in Chinatown', 'Where Galluccio Lived' and 'Friday Morning in the Haight'.
What makes Kleinzahler's poetry so intriguing is his fusion of the traditionally elegiac with a cranky, postmodern blend of vocabularies. Classical verse, industrial jargon, biological precision and street talk all jostle for position. This is poetry for the internet age: democratic, funky yet still emotionally charged and moving. The book contains what, to my mind, are many of Kleinzahler's best poems including 'Where Souls Go', 'Poetics', 'Sunset in Chinatown', 'Where Galluccio Lived' and 'Friday Morning in the Haight'.
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Stunning
28 May 2001
Lyric, unsentimental... moving... Kleinzahler demonstrates tremendous virtuoso as a poet, integrating the language of the city and the language of the heart into his work.
One of the very few contemporary poets today with a lyrical ear and a vision for a poetry that challenges what he calls the "professional neuroticism" of the neo-confessional poem and the vacant opacity of avant-garde poetics.
These poems hit close to home. They are engaged in the city with all of its energy, loneliness, and paradoxes.
One of the very few contemporary poets today with a lyrical ear and a vision for a poetry that challenges what he calls the "professional neuroticism" of the neo-confessional poem and the vacant opacity of avant-garde poetics.
These poems hit close to home. They are engaged in the city with all of its energy, loneliness, and paradoxes.
0 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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1 Sep 2005
This book was delivered on a timely basis in the promised condition. Such good service augments the reputation of this bookseller and promotes the purchase of used books through amazon.com.
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