Hotel Oneira

A thrilling new collection from one of the most original poets of his generation

"His work is a modernist swirl of sex, surrealism, urban life and melancholy with a jazzy backbeat." That praise appeared in the pages of The New York Times in 2005, but it applies no less to August Kleinzahler''s newest collection.
Kleinzahler''s poetry is, as ever, concerned with permeability: Voices, places, the...