{"product_id":"sallies-romps-portraits-and-send-offs-selected-prose-2000-2016-paperback","title":"Sallies, Romps, Portraits, and Send-Offs: Selected Prose, 2000-2016 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAugust Kleinzahler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSixteen years' worth of incisive essays by the great poet and memoirist\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Witty, gritty poet and memoirist Kleinzahler\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e) 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere, in \u003ci\u003eSallies, Romps, Portraits, and Send-Offs\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAugust Kleinzahler\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1949. He is the author of several books of poems and a memoir, \u003ci\u003eCutty, One Rock\u003c\/i\u003e. His collection \u003ci\u003eThe Strange Hours Travelers Keep \u003c\/i\u003ewas awarded the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize, and \u003ci\u003eSleeping It Off in Rapid City\u003c\/i\u003e won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. That same year he received a Lannan Literary Award. He lives in San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 314\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.25 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52698827391283,"sku":"9780374537678","price":32.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/QThvY1FSVzdpMEtkM1ljL2pXMU5Pdz09.webp?v=1763186198","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/sallies-romps-portraits-and-send-offs-selected-prose-2000-2016-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}