Before Dawn On Bluff Road / Hollyhocks In The Fog: Selected New Jersey Poems / Selected San Francisco Poems

A collection of August KleinzahlerÆs best poems, dividedùlike his lifeùbetween New Jersey and San Francisco When August Kleinzahler won the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize for his collection The Strange Hours Travelers Keep, the judgesÆ citation referred to his work as ôferociously on the move, between locations, between forms, between registers.ö They might also have added ôbetween New Jersey and San Francisco,ö the places Kleinzahler has spent his life traveling between, both on the road and on the page. This collection assembles the best of his New Jersey and San Francisco poems for the first time, organized according to place, with each city receiving its own title and cover. Providing readers with a gorgeous guide to KleinzahlerÆs interior geography, Before Dawn on Bluff Road (New Jersey) and Hollyhocks in the Fog (San Francisco) function as both word-maps and word-anatomies of one of our greatest poetÆs lifelong passions and preoccupations.

• | Author: August Kleinzahler
• | Publisher: Farrar, Straus And Giroux
• | Publication Date: May 01, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 176 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Poetry
• | ISBN-10: 0374537682
• | ISBN-13: 9780374537685