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Sallies, Romps, Portraits, and Send-Offs: Selected Prose, 2000–2016

August Kleinzahler

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Sixteen years’ worth of incisive essays by the great poet and memoirist

“Witty, gritty poet and memoirist Kleinzahler” 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 ; leads the charge in carving up a few bloated reputations ; and sings the praises of unjustly neglected masters . 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.

Pages: 288

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Release: May 09, 2017

ISBN: 0374282099

ISBN 13: 9780374282097

Sallies, Romps, Portraits, and Send-Offs: Selected Prose, 2000–2016

August Kleinzahler

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Sixteen years’ worth of incisive essays by the great poet and memoirist

“Witty, gritty poet and memoirist Kleinzahler” 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 ; leads the charge in carving up a few bloated reputations ; and sings the praises of unjustly neglected masters . 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.

Pages: 288

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Release: May 09, 2017

ISBN: 0374282099

ISBN 13: 9780374282097

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