{"product_id":"9781466881495","title":"Live from the Hong Kong Nile Club: Poems: 1975-1990","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe early poems of an American master\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"I have loved the air outside Shop-Rite Liquor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eon summer evenings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ebetter than the Marin hills at dusk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003elavender and gold\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003estretching miles to the sea.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAt the junction, up from the synagogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ea weeknight, necessarily\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eand with my father--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ea sale on German beer.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAir full of living dust:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ebus exhaust, air-borne grains of pizza crust\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ewounded crystals\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eappearing, disappearing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eamong streetlights and unsuccessful neon.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e--\"Poetics\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAugust Kleinzahler's first collections won him a cult following but have long been out of print and hard to find. Here Kleinzahler--acclaimed by \u003ci\u003eThe Times \u003c\/i\u003e(London) for the \"vision and confident skill to make American poetry new\"--has selected the best of the poems collected in \u003ci\u003eStorm over Hackensack \u003c\/i\u003e(1985) and \u003ci\u003eEarthquake Weather \u003c\/i\u003e(1989) and added an autobiographical Preface in \u003ci\u003eLive from the Hong Kong Nile Club\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47144006648048,"sku":"9781466881495","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466881495_p0.jpg?v=1769892139","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466881495","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}