Sleeping It Off in Rapid City
New and Selected Poems
Resumen del libro
The first broad retrospective of August Kleinzahler's career, Sleeping It Off in Rapid City gathers poems from his four British collections along with a generous selection of new poems that confirm Kleinzahler as among the most inventive and brilliant American poets of our time. Travel - actual and imaginary - remains a passion and an inspiration for a poet who simultaneously finds This sanctified ground / Here, yes, here / The dead solid center of the universe / At the heart of the heart of America.'
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Sleeping It Off in Rapid City is an essential selection from four decades of work by this most original of poets.
His work is a modernist swirl of sex, surrealism, urban life and melancholy, with a jazzy backbeat. His personality combines Allen Ginsberg's goofball charm and Norman Mailer's inveterate pugnacity.' New York Times
Make no mistake: This is a major collection by a major American poet.' San Francisco Chronicle
