The Strange Hours Travelers Keep
A poetry collection that moves lightly among travel, cities, music, and art. Humor and intellectual association mingle as the poems travel freely between distant scenes and everyday fragments.
Work Information
Free verse linking distant landscapes and urban fragments.
An American poet known for combining urban sensibility with conversational rhythm. His poems draw on a wide range of cultural references.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Published
- 2004-11-01
- Pages
- 98 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.97 x 0.69 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780374529413
- ISBN-10
- 0374529418
- Price
- 3066 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/American
August Kleinzahler's new poems stretch and go places he has never gone before: They have his signature high color and rhythmic jump, but they take on a breadth of voice and achieve registers that his earlier work only hinted at. Ranging from Las Vegas and Mayfair to contemporary Berlin, these poems touch down at will in tableaux where Liberace unceremoniously meets with St. Kevin and Gustav Mahler with Ava Gardner. This is the strongest collection to date from a poet "equally at home anywhere between the jets and the steppes" (Alexsandar Hemon, Poetry ).
August Kleinzahler is the author of ten books of poems, including Green Sees Things in Waves and Live from the Hong Kong Nile Club . He lives in San Francisco.
Reviews
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Great poet and writer. He grasps human nature and writes very well. of his work always enjoyed his books
Related Literary Awards
- Griffin Poetry Prize Edition 4 (2004) ・Winner