[New-Poetry] Kleinzahler's bad rep

[jforjames at aol.com]

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-sfpoet28-2008jul28,0,2422483.story

with his fighting words, and ways.
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer 
July 28, 2008 
SAN FRANCISCO -- August Kleinzahler gets into fights at poetry readings.


Once, in Ireland, he traded insults with a host he found verbose. At a reading in a New York bar, he told a noisy drunk to shut his trap. Fists flew after the guy made a crack about Kleinzahler's coat, a sentimental hand-me-down from his father.


Kleinzahler goes to readings because he is a poet. He just doesn't act like one.
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