[New-Poetry] Kleinzahler's bad rep

[jforjames at aol.com]

Now here's a poet who could really throw the leather...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Cravan
http://www.trocadero.com/MuseXX/items/356158/item356158store.html

I seem to remember hearing that James Joyce, when out drinking in Paris cafes with EH, would sometimes get cross-wise with a fellow patron, then Joyce would?pivot nimbly?behind one of Hemingway's shoulder and exhort, "Deal with him, Hemingway!" Or something to that effect.

Boxing/fisticuffs poems anyone?

Finnegan

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From: karen <oedipa at gmail.com>
Sent: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 5:18 pm
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Kleinzahler's bad rep



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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