August Kleinzahler Rapid City

Where Trees do their Witchy Dance

August Kleinzahler

Sleeping it Off in Rapid City: Poems, New and Selected

234pp. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux. $26.00.

Reviewed by Marjorie Perloff

Published in Times Literary Supplement. July 9, 2008: 11-12.

In an arresting poem called “Meat,” August Kleinzahler wonders:
How much meat moves
Into the city each night
The decks of its bridges tremble
In the liquefaction of sodium […]