August Kleinzahler
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The Strange Hours Travelers Keep: Poems
August Kleinzahler
Those aren’t stars, darling
That’s your nervous system
Nanna didn’t take you to planetariums like this —from “Hyper-Berceuse: 3 A.M.”
August Kleinzahler’s new poems stretch and go places he has never gone before: they have his signature high color and rhythmic jump, but they take on a breadth of voice and achieve registers that his earlier work only hinted at. Ranging from Vegas and Mayfair to the Asian steppes and contemporary Berlin, these poems touch down at will in tableaux where Liberace unceremoniously meets…
