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The Strange Hours Travelers Keep: Poems by August Kleinzahler

As a lover of poetry, I think August Kleinzahler is one the best contemporary poets writing

A couple of quotes:
1. from An Englishman Abroad (for Christopher Logue)
"The talk-radio host is trying to shake the wacko
with only a minute left
to get in the finance and boner-pill spots
before signing off"


2. Epistle VIII

"There's good reason why the folks you find up-country tend
to be dull.
It's because they spend their days talking to animals, you know."

3. Christmas in Chinatown

"One reads that the digestive wind passed by cattle
is many times more destructive to the atmosphere
than all of the aerosol cans combined.
How does one measure such a thing?
The world has been coming to an end
for 5,000 years. If not tomorrow,
surely, one day very soon."