Full name: Sleeping It Off in Rapid City: Poems, New and Selected

Author: August Kleinzahler Year: 2008 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Politics, Poetry Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780374265830 0374265836

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." Similar books: The Far Field by Theodore Roethke Garbage by A. R. Ammons Lighthead by Terrance Hayes The Bridge by Hart Crane Actual Air by David Berman Spring and All by William Carlos Williams Words Under the Words by Naomi Shihab Nye The Lives of the Heart by Jane Hirshfield The Art of Drowning by Billy Collins Come on All You Ghosts by Matthew Zapruder Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde Sappho by Bliss Carman Loose Woman by Sandra Cisneros The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot Red Sauce, Whiskey and Snow by August Kleinzahler Dream Work by Mary Oliver Red Bird by Mary Oliver The Way It Is by William Stafford The Book of Images by Rainer Maria Rilke