Sleeping It Off in Rapid City

The first broad retrospective of August Kleinzahler's career,Sleeping It Off in Rapid Citygathers poems from his major works along with a rich portion of new poems that visit different voice registers, experiment with form and length, and confirm Kleinzahler as among the most inventive and brilliant poets of our time. Travelactual and imaginaryremains a passion and inspiration, and in these pages the poet also finds "This sanctified ground / Here, yes, here / The dead solid center of the universe / At the heart of the heart of America."Kleinzahler, August is the author of 'Sleeping It Off in Rapid City', published 2008 under ISBN 9780374265830 and ISBN 0374265836.