Sallies, Romps, Portraits, and Send-Offs

Incisive, witty, and uncompromising: sixteen years of August Kleinzahler's best essays on literature, culture, and more In this scabrous and essential collection, "witty, gritty poet and memoirist" (Publishers Weekly) August Kleinzahler gathers sixteen years' worth of his most penetrating essays, remembrances, and reviews. With insight and humor, Kleinzahler sets down his thoughts on topics ranging from great poets and bad poets to kvetching fiction writers and homicidal musicians, from eccentri