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

[karen]

Ha!  You're probably right on the money there!

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Chris Lott <chris.lott at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
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