I'd be interested in knowing who invited August Kleinzahler to the Queensland Poetry Festival, and whether his 1992 book published by Picador Australia had an impact. Assume that the six Farrar Strauss & Giroux titles strengthened an initial Australian presence. Otherwise, I knew Kleinzahler studied with Basil Bunting in Canada, but until very recently hadn't realized that had translated into a Canadian book published by Coach House in 1978. Not exactly one of the "pure products of America". I remember being somewhat intrigued by his only reading in Washington DC (at the Library of Congress), yet startled that their "laureate" at the time, Richard Wilbur, invited him. Wish I could remember how AK explained Wilbur's curatorial decision when I asked him about it after his reading.
Barry
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:05:11 +0800, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>I went looking in the London Review of Books for poems and articles by
>August Kleinzahler, and turned this one up first:
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>I digested and went on to the next one, to find it strangely the same.
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