Green Sees Things in Waves: Poems - Softcover

Kleinzahler, August

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374525846 ISBN 13: 9780374525842

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999

Synopsis

In August Kleinzahler's most powerful and inventive collection to date he succeeds in creating a new idiom for American lyric poetry that captures the velocity and swerves of contemporary life. The landscape will be familiar from earlier collections - San Francisco, New York, and environs - but here Kleinzahler also explores the fabric of dreamlife with the same precision and liveliness of observation he brings to his poems of the city.

About this title

Review:

"[Kleinzahler's] best successes are just as crisp and pungent as Pound's most startling images." --DeSales Harrison, Boston Book Review

"This new book is full of off-kilter yet dead-on observations that hover just above our recognition until their very sound trips the brainwire and the 'little truth' falls into place." --Albert Mobilio, Salon

About the Author:

August Kleinzahler's previous collection of poems is Red Sauce, Whiskey and Snow (FSG, 1995). He has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in San Francisco.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0374525846
• ISBN 13: 9780374525842
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96