Sallies, romps, portraits, and send-offs
selected prose, 2000-2016
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Author
Publication
2017 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
74,750 words, Guess
Page Count
299 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivesalliesrompsport0000klei
- ISBN-100374282099
- ISBN-139780374282097
- Library of Congress Control Number2016041351
- OCLC Control Number957021234
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780374282097
- Open LibraryOL27235277M
Classifications
- DDC814/.54
- LCCPS3561.L38285 A6 2017
- LCCPS3561.L38285A6 2017
Description
"Sixteen years' worth of incisive essays by the great poet and memoirist 'Witty, gritty poet and memoirist Kleinzahler' (Publishers Weekly) has gathered the best of sixteen years' worth of essays, remembrances, and reviews in this scabrous and essential collection, setting down his thoughts about great poets and bad poets, about kvetching fiction writers and homicidal musicians, about eccentric critics and discerning nobodies, always with insight and humor, and never suffering fools gladly. Here, in Sallies, Romps, Portraits, and Send-Offs, August Kleinzahler eulogizes famous friends, warts and all (Thom Gunn, Christopher Middleton, Leonard Michaels); leads the charge in carving up a few bloated reputations (E.E. Cummings, Richard Brautigan); and sings the praises of unjustly neglected masters (Lucia Berlin, Kenneth Cox). He also turns the spotlight on himself in several short, delightful memoirs, covering such subjects as his obsessive CD collecting, the eerie effects of San Francisco fog, and the terrible duty of selling of his childhood home"--
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Other Editions
- Sallies, romps, portraits, and send-offs: selected prose, 2000-2016
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