[New-Poetry] Kleinzahler's bad rep

[karen]

I couldn't help but laugh when I read this.  Reminds me of the story about
Wallace Stevens trading jabs down in Florida with Hemingway...at least
according to legend.  For the record, I like August.  His poetry and his
oddities.  I've met him a few times.  A bit of a character, but he was
always interesting to be around.

k

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 5:12 PM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:

> 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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