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Before dawn on bluff road, selected New Jersey poems ; Hollyhocks in the fog : selected San Francisco poems, August Kleinzahler

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Before dawn on bluff road

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August Kleinzahler

selected New Jersey poems ; Hollyhocks in the fog : selected San Francisco poems

"A collection of August Kleinzahler's best poems, divided--like his life--between New Jersey and San Francisco When August Kleinzahler won the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize for his collection The Strange Hours Travelers Keep, the judges' citation referred to his work as "ferociously on the move, between locations, between forms, between registers." They might also have added "between New Jersey and San Francisco," the places Kleinzahler has spent his life traveling between, both on the road and on the page. This collection assembles the best of his New Jersey and San Francisco poems for the first time, organized according to place, with each city receiving its own title and cover. Providing readers with a gorgeous guide to Kleinzahler's interior geography, Before Dawn on Bluff Road (New Jersey) and Hollyhocks in the Fog (San Francisco) function as both word--maps and word--anatomies of one of our greatest poet's lifelong passions and preoccupations."--, Provided by publisher"Selected verse from throughout Kleinzahler's career, organized according to his two homes: New Jersey and California"--, Provided by publisher

Before dawn on Bluff Road -- Lo mein -- Family album -- Closing it down on the Palisades -- Meat -- Where Galluccio lived -- Aubade on East 12th Street -- The Hotel Oneira -- Late autumn afternoons -- Who stole the horses from the indians? -- Sunday nocturne -- Cat in late autumn -- Silver gelatin -- Winter branches -- Red sauce, whiskey and snow -- On first looking into Joseph Cornell's diaries -- Snow in North Jersey -- Portrait of my mother in January -- Blue at four p.m. -- Late winter morning on the Palisades -- From FDR Drive the children of Whitman gaze up -- Self-portrait -- 16 -- Shoot the freak -- The dog Stoltz -- 1975 -- Going -- Watching dogwood blossoms fall in a parking lot off Route 46 -- Poetics -- Tanka toys: a memoir -- As you never bothered to return my call -- Storm over Hackensack -- Art & youth -- Where souls go -- Green River Cemetery: Springs -- The old schoolyard in August -- The hereafter -- A history of western music: Chapter 63Hollyhocks in the fog -- Bay lullaby -- Land's end -- Summer journal -- A history of western music: Chapter 29 -- The single gentleman's chow mein -- Noir -- Sunset in Chinatown -- September -- Indian summer night: The Haight -- Peaches in November -- Late Indian summer -- The swimmer -- Sunday in November -- Flynn's end -- San Francisco / New York -- Disappointment -- After Lady Murakami -- Ebeneezer Californicus -- Christmas in Chinatown -- Friends through at New Year's: 1987 -- Winter ball -- Visits -- Warm night in February -- The wind in March -- Watching young couples with an old girlfriend on Sunday morning -- The lunatic of Lindley Meadow -- Rooms -- The park -- Back -- Lock shop -- Spring trances -- Rain