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Poems by August Kleinzahler. Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, $19.00 cloth. Reviewed by David Rivard.

August Kleinzahler is a poet whose freshness provokes other poets and critics into describing him as the offspring of unlikely matings. In one book blurb, Thom Gunn brings together Frank O'Hara and Basil Bunting. Helen Vendler, in a recent New Yorker piece, weds Berryman and William Carlos Williams for the same purpose. Maybe Kleinzahler is really the love-child of a menage a trots starring Popeye, Olive Oyl, and the haiku master Basho. In other words, he is what he is (and, Zen-wise, what he isn't, as well).

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