August Kleinzahler

August Kleinzahler’s latest collection is Sleeping It Off in Rapid City. He wrote about selling his parents’ house in the last issue.

In the LRB Archive:

• Poem: ‘Closing It Down on the Palisades’ · 25 February 2010

• Diary: Selling Up · 11 February 2010

• Poem: ‘The Exquisite Atmography of Thomas Appletree, Diarist of Edgiock’ · 7 January 2010

• Poem: ‘When the Barocco’ · 24 September 2009

• Poem: ‘How Many Times’ · 11 June 2009

• He K-norcked Her One: Burroughs and Kerouac’s Novel · 28 May 2009

  • And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs

• Poem: ‘A Wine Tale’ · 12 February 2009

• Poem: ‘Hollyhocks in the Fog’ · 4 December 2008

• Poem: ‘Shoot the Freak’ · 17 July 2008

• All There Needs to Be Said: Louis Zukofsky · 22 May 2008

  • The Poem of a Life: A Biography of Louis Zukofsky by Mark Scroggins

• Poem: ‘Secondary Sexual Characteristics’ · 13 December 2007

• What Happened to Obama?: The Rise and Fall of Barack Obama · 18 October 2007

  • Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
  • The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
  • Obama: From Promise to Power by David Mendell

• Poem: ‘Anniversary’ · 21 June 2007

• Poem: ‘Sleeping It Off in Rapid City’ · 22 February 2007

• Two Poems · 4 January 2007

• Two Poems · 5 October 2006

• Poem: ‘A History of Western Music: Chapter 49 (McPhee’s Gamelan)’ · 7 September 2006

• Diary: The Doomsday Boys · 17 August 2006

• Poem: ‘September’ · 3 August 2006

• Poem: ‘I Went To See McCarthy’ · 11 May 2006

• Snarly Glitters: Roy Fisher · 20 April 2006

  • The Long and the Short of It: Poems 1955-2005 by Roy Fisher

• Living on Apple Crumble: James Schuyler · 17 November 2005

  • Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler 1951-91 edited by William Corbett

• Two Poems · 20 October 2005

• Poem: ‘Over Gower Street’ · 1 September 2005

• Toss the monkey wrench: Lee Harwood’s risky poems · 19 May 2005

  • Collected Poems by Lee Harwood

• Two Poems · 17 March 2005

• Diary: remembering Thom Gunn · 4 November 2004

• My Girls: A Memoir: parents, lovers and a poetic punch-up · 19 August 2004

• Two Poems · 9 October 2003

• Cutty, One Rock: My Big Bad Brother · 21 August 2003

• Poem: ‘The Bus Barn at Night’ · 7 August 2003

• This Condensery: In Praise of Lorine Niedecker · 5 June 2003

  • Collected Works by Lorine Niedecker, edited by Jenny Penberthy
  • Collected Studies in the Use of English by Kenneth Cox
  • New Goose by Lorine Niedecker, edited by Jenny Penberthy

• Poem: ‘A History of Western Music: Chapter 11’ · 20 February 2003

• Poem: ‘A History of Western Music’ · 3 October 2002

• Drinking Bourbon in the Zam Zam Room: San Francisco bars · 8 August 2002

• Two Poems · 25 July 2002

• Poem: ‘The Tartar Swept’ · 9 May 2002

• Poem: ‘The Art Farm’ · 14 January 2002

• Poem: ‘An Englishman Abroad’ · 1 November 2001

• Too Bad about Mrs Ferri: wiseguys · 20 September 2001

• Poem: ‘The Old Poet, Dying’ · 6 September 2001

• An apple is an apple: György Petri · 19 July 2001

  • Eternal Monday: New and Selected Poems by György Petri, translated by Clive Wilmer

• Two Poems · 24 May 2001

• Two Poems · 8 March 2001

• No Light on in the House: Richard Brautigan Revisited · 14 December 2000

  • An Unfortunate Woman by Richard Brautigan
  • Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-70 by Richard Brautigan
  • You Can't Catch Death by Ianthe Brautigan

• Poem: ‘September: Lake Wannsee, Berlin’ · 19 October 2000

• Put it away, like a good girl · 16 March 2000

  • Where I Live Now: Stories 1993-98 by Lucia Berlin

• Four Poems · 3 February 2000

• Three Poems · 30 September 1999

• Two Poems · 19 August 1999

• Blackfell’s Scarlatti: Basil Bunting · 21 January 1999

  • The Poet as Spy: The Life and Wild Times of Basil Bunting by Keith Alldritt

• Poem: ‘September, with Travellers’ · 26 November 1998

• Three Poems · 2 July 1998

• Poem: ‘Listening in April: Time Zones (Sydney, Virginia, San Francisco)’ · 19 February 1998

• Poem: ‘52 Pick-Up’ · 16 October 1997

• Poem: ‘Late Autumn Afternoons’ · 17 July 1997

• Poem: ‘Self-Portrait’ · 6 February 1997

• Poem: ‘Tanka-Toys: A Memoir’ · 28 November 1996

• Poem: ‘August 1995’ · 20 June 1996

• Poem: ‘Snow in North Jersey’ · 22 February 1996

• Three Poems · 2 November 1995

• Poem: ‘On First Looking into Joseph Cornell’s Diaries’ · 11 May 1995

• Poem: ‘Uttar Pradesh’ · 9 March 1995

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