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August Kleinzahler

August Kleinzahler’s latest collection is Sleeping It Off in Rapid City; he lives in San Francisco.

Selected bibliography

  • The Cutty, One Rock: Low Characters and Strange Places, Gently Explained (2004)  Buy this book
  • The Strange Hours Travellers Keep (2004)
  • Live from the Hong Kong Nile Club: Poems 1975-90 (2000)
  • Green Sees Things in Waves: Poems (1999)
  • Red Sauce, Whiskey and Snow (1995)
  • Storm Over Hackensack (1985)
  • A Calendar of Airs (1978)

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In the LRB archive

subscriber-only content All There Needs to Be Said · 22 May 2008

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

subscriber-only content Poem: ‘Secondary Sexual Characteristics’ · 13 December 2007

subscriber-only content What Happened to Obama? · 18 October 2007

subscriber-only content Poem: ‘Anniversary’ · 21 June 2007

subscriber-only content Poem: ‘Sleeping It Off in Rapid City’ · 22 February 2007

subscriber-only content Two Poems · 4 January 2007

subscriber-only content Two Poems · 5 October 2006

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

Diary: The Doomsday Boys · 17 August 2006

subscriber-only content Poem: ‘September’ · 3 August 2006

subscriber-only content Poem: ‘I Went To See McCarthy’ · 11 May 2006

Snarly Glitters · 20 April 2006

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

subscriber-only content Living on Apple Crumble · 17 November 2005

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

subscriber-only content Two Poems · 20 October 2005

subscriber-only content Poem: ‘Over Gower Street’ · 1 September 2005

subscriber-only content Toss the monkey wrench · 19 May 2005

subscriber-only content Two Poems · 17 March 2005

subscriber-only content Diary: August Kleinzahler remembers Thom Gunn · 4 November 2004

subscriber-only content My Girls: A Memoir · 19 August 2004

subscriber-only content Two Poems · 9 October 2003

subscriber-only content Cutty, One Rock · 21 August 2003

subscriber-only content Poem: ‘The Bus Barn at Night’ · 7 August 2003

subscriber-only content This Condensery · 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

subscriber-only content Poem: ‘A History of Western Music: Chapter 11’ · 20 February 2003

subscriber-only content Poem: ‘A History of Western Music’ · 3 October 2002

subscriber-only content Drinking Bourbon in the Zam Zam Room · 8 August 2002

subscriber-only content Two Poems · 25 July 2002

subscriber-only content Poem: ‘The Tartar Swept’ · 9 May 2002

Too Bad about Mrs Ferri · 20 September 2001

subscriber-only content Poem: ‘The Old Poet, Dying’ · 6 September 2001

subscriber-only content An apple is an apple · 19 July 2001

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

subscriber-only content Two Poems · 24 May 2001

subscriber-only content Two Poems · 8 March 2001

subscriber-only content No Light on in the House · 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

subscriber-only content Poem: ‘September: Lake Wannsee, Berlin’ · 19 October 2000

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive Poem: ‘The Art Farm’ · 14 January 2002

 not available in archive Poem: ‘An Englishman Abroad’ · 1 November 2001

 not available in archive Put it away, like a good girl · 16 March 2000

 not available in archive Four Poems · 3 February 2000

 not available in archive Three Poems · 30 September 1999

 not available in archive Two Poems · 19 August 1999

 not available in archive Blackfell’s Scarlatti · 21 January 1999

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

 not available in archive Poem: ‘September, with Travellers’ · 26 November 1998

 not available in archive Three Poems · 2 July 1998

 not available in archive Poem: ‘Listening in April: Time Zones (Sydney, Virginia, San Francisco)’ · 19 February 1998

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