Description: SIGNED COLLECTIBLE BRAND NEW softcover, 1988 Pig Press Durham,clean text, solid binding, NO remainders NOT ex-library slight shelfwear /storage-wear; WE SHIP FAST. Carefully packed and quickly sent. SIGNED on half-title "June 22, 1988 ForMichael Bernstein, With regard & all the good things -- A K" Michael André Bernstein, Writer and Professorof English and Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley, died May 25, 2011 at theage of 63, bringing to an end a prolific, thirty-six year career as teacher, ascholar-critic, a poet and a novelist. His work in all these domains wasdistinguished by a highly original critical vocabulary and personal vision ofthe intersection of literature and history, culture and morality. Often described a“pugnacious” and a “pugilist poet,” August Kleinzahler’s reputation rests onhis jazzy, formally inventive and energetic poetry, though he has also garnerednotice as something of a bad-boy literary outsider prone to picking fights withthe establishment. Hailingoriginally from Fort Lee, New Jersey, and a long-time resident of SanFrancisco, Kleinzahler’s fame as a colloquial poet of “dive bars, greasy soup,alcohol and old girlfriends,” as John Glionna of the LA Times put it, has builtsteadily over the past years. Winner of the Griffin International Poetry Prizein 2004, and his volume of new and selected poems, Sleeping it Off in RapidCity (2008) was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award. His poetry’sgruff language and fondness for off-color subject matter doesn’t overshadow hisformal control and innovation, however, and he is highly praised for hismastery of vocabulary, syntax and line. Alan Ginsbergfamously remarked that “August Kleinzahler’s verse line is always precise,concrete, intelligent and rare — that quality of ‘chiseled’ verse memorable inBasil Bunting‘s and Ezra Pound‘s work. A loner, a genius.” Kleinzahler’searly life in New Jersey was marked by an intense awareness of the Fort Lee wasa notorious bedroom community for Albert Anastasia’s Murder Inc. syndicate.James Campbell noted that “the poet remains passionate about his New Jerseyidentity, sometimes referring to it as if it were a separate character, andabout his home town in particular.” 4 07 777
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Binding: Softcover, Wraps
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Author: Kleinzahler, August
Publisher: Pig Press
Year Printed: 1988
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