The early poems of an American masterI have loved the air outside Shop-Rite Liquoron summer eveningsbetter than the Marin hills at dusklavender and goldstretching miles to the sea. At the junction, up from the synagoguea weeknight, necessarilyand with my father-a sale on German beer. Air full of living dust: bus exhaust, air-borne grains of pizza crustwounded crystalsappearing, disappearingamong streetlights and unsuccessful neon.-PoeticsAugust Kleinzahler's first collections won him a cult following but have long been out of print and hard to find. Here Kleinzahler-acclaimed by The Times (London) for the vision and confident skill to make American poetry new-has selected the best of the poems collected in Storm over Hackensack (1985) and Earthquake Weather (1989) and added an autobiographical Preface. | Live from the Hong Kong Nile Club by August Kleinzahler, Paperback | Indigo Chapters