August Kleinzahler
August Kleinzahler (born 1949) is a United States poet. He was born in 1949 in Jersey City, New Jersey. He went to the Horace Mann School, and then the University of Wisconsin. He dropped out of Wisconsin, but ended up at the University of Victoria in British Columbia where he took classes with Basil Bunting.
Possibly the most-used blurb quote regarding Kleinzahler's work is from Allen Ginsberg: "August Kleinzahler's verse line is always precise, concrete, intelligent and rare - that quality of 'chiseled' verse memorable in Basil Bunting's and Ezra Pound's work. A loner, a genius."
He is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently The Strange Hours Travelers Keep. Also one book of non-fiction, Cutty, One Rock (Low Characters and Strange Places, Gently Explained.)
Poetry
- The Strange Hours Travelers Keep, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004 (winner of the 2004 International Griffin Poetry Prize)
- Live from the Hong Kong Nile Club : Poems: 1975-1990, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000
- Green Sees Things in Waves, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999
- Red Sauce, Whiskey and Snow, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1995
- Like cities, like storms, Picador Australia, 1992
- Earthquake Weather, Moyer Bell Ltd, 1989
- Storm over Hackensack, Moyer Bell Ltd, 1985
- A Calendar of Airs, Coach House Press, 1978
Prose
- Cutty, One Rock : Low Characters and Strange Places, Gently Explained, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004