The Hotel Oneira - Hardcover

Kleinzahler, August

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571305598 ISBN 13: 9780571305599

Publisher: faber and faber uk, 2013

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About the Author:

August Kleinzahler was born in Jersey City in 1949. He is the author of many books of poems and a prose memoir, Cutty, One Rock. The Strange Hours Travelers Keep won the International Griffin Poetry Prize (2004), Sleeping it Off in Rapid City the National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in San Francisco.

Review:

Praise for "Hotel Oneira ""Kleinzahler's music is not like anyone else's. His ear seems at times to have been shipped in from one of the moons of Saturn, and he hears possibilities in our daily language to which the rest of us remain incorrigibly deaf." --Troy Jollimore, "The Washington Post" "Kleinzahler's work, dreamlike yet savvy, is among the most delightful flowerings of American poetry in our times." --David Wheately, "The Guardian" (London) "[August Kleinzahler] might be the best poet in America, I don't know--I can't trust my judgment after I finish one of his too infrequent collections, high on its cartoon-jazz fumes. It's been five years since the astonishment of "Sleeping It Off in Rapid City," which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry in 2008 (and should have won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer), and, well, he's back . . . If you're unfamiliar with his work . . . start somewhere, for God's sake--you're missing out on one hell of a racket." --Michael Robbins, "Chicago Tribune""Kleinzahler's poetry, like his name, is verbally lush, veritably cornucopian and always promising more . . . If there's a unifying characteristic to this 'teeming, ' verbally high-octane poetry, it's its ability to lean toward sentimentality without indulging in it. Memory, in August Kleinzahler's poetry, becomes a resource for reveling in words and proper nouns that might otherwise seem lost - for revivifying the dead both within and without the poet. And the poetry itself delivers bouquet after bouquet of lovely phrases, 'profusion(s) of violets, turtles, snakes and cranes, ' so that even if readers can't quite remember the lost world Kleinzahler is recovering, they can enjoy his skill, which is considerable." --Aaron Belz, "San Francisco Chronicle ""Where the acoustics of his poems are concerned, Kleinzahler is the model of scrupulousness . . . Here in abundance is Frost's "sound of sense," musically understood, as a poetic l

About this edition

• Publisher: faber and faber uk
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0571305598
• ISBN 13: 9780571305599
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 79