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

[Chris Lott]

I bet August-K would happily throw down with K-Ryan if it meant
retaining the outsider crown...

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 16:22, David Graham <grahamd at ripon.edu> wrote:
> 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.