Sleeping It Off in Rapid City

August Kleinzahler · 2008 CE · Poem · Modern / American · Contemporary

New and selected poems from a poet of San Francisco streets, New Jersey childhood and wandering through the interior, taking in jazz, bars and cheap hotels. The tone is wry and unsentimental, with an eye for surfaces. A selection that shared the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award, and so partly retrospective.

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