[New-Poetry] Re: Kleinzahler's bad rep

[David Graham]

I'm a long-term fan of Kleinzahler's poetry, but he's a real bar-room  
bore when he talks about poetry.

The "outsider" schtick gets old fast when the bad boy in question is  
lavishly promoted by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (his publisher since  
1995:  5 books to date), sucks up the grant money by the gallon, and  
has taught, for instance, at Iowa Writer's Workshop, Brown  
University, Berkeley, Stanford, and the University of Texas.


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On 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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