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August Kleinzahler

Author Photo of August Kleinzahler, credit Mark Savage
Books by this author: A History of Western Music
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  • August Kleinzahler was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1949. He is the author of more than a dozen books of poems and a memoir, Cutty, One Rock. His collection The Strange Hours Travelers Keep was awarded the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize, and Sleeping It Off in Rapid City won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. That same year he received a Lannan Literary Award. He lives in San Francisco.

    Author photo credit: Mark Savage
    Praise for August Kleinzahler 'Much like the best music, Kleinzahler's poems are both personal and communal [...] these poems are electric and moving.'
    Publishers Weekly
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