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Summary
The first broad retrospective of August Kleinzahler’s career, Sleeping It Off in Rapid City gathers poems from his major works along with a rich portion of new poems that visit different voice registers, experiment with form and length, and confirm Kleinzahler as among the most inventive and brilliant poets of our time. Travel – actual and imaginary – remains a passion and inspiration, and in these pages the poet also finds ‘This sanctified ground / Here, yes, here / The dead solid center of the universe / At the heart of the heart of America.’
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August Kleinzahler was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1949. He is the author of twelve 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 for poetry. That same year…
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