Cutty, One Rock by August Kleinzahler
Cutty, One Rock takes the reader on a wild journey by airplane, bus, ferry, and foot from childhood to early manhood in the company of a New Jersey family in equal measures cultivated and deranged. We witness scenes of passionate, even violent intensity that give rise to meditations on eros and literature, the solitariness of travel, and the poetics of place.
These individual pieces, most of which first appeared in The London Review of Books and won an international cult following, are by turns poignant, surreal, down home and lyrical, a mixture of qualities that inheres in his language with uncommon delicacy and effect (Leonard Michaels). Together they make up an intellectual and emotional autobiography on the run. The book's final section, about Kleinzahler's adored, doomed older brother, is unforgettable, and since its appearance last year in the LRB, has already entered the literature as one of the most moving contemporary memoirs.
The Odd Hours Travelers Keep, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2003, won the Griffin International Poetry Award in 2004. He's also the author of the prose works Cutty, One Rock: Low People and Weird Places, Gently Explained (FSG, 2004) and Music: I-LXXIV (Pressed Wafer, 2009), as well as the winner of the Lannan Literary Prize for Poetry in 2008 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award in 2017. Kleinzahler was born in Fort Lee, New Jersey, and now lives in San Francisco.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780374530181 |
| ISBN 10 | 0374530181 |
| Title | Cutty, One Rock |
| Author | August Kleinzahler |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc |
| Year published | 2005-12-13 |
| Number of pages | 210 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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