Spring 1996 The Lost Evening August Kleinzahler Leaving Las Vegas, directed by Mike Figgis, 1995. Since it was Christmas Eve, I thought it might be the appropriate time to go see a movie about a writer who endeavors to drink himself to death. I'd read a couple of good reviews of Leaving Las Vegas and I have always had a soft spot in my heart for drunks, or at least a certain kind of drunk. Most ...

August Kleinzahler Brief Bio AUGUST KLEINZAHLER is the author of six collections of poetry. Of his most recent work The Economist wrote, Kleinzahler's poems in Red Sauce, Whiskey and Snow jerk and snap their fingers at you all the time. High an low vocabularies hang out together. They are hectic, pulsing things, ever alive to the music of words when spoken. The atmosphere is that of some ...

THE BOOKSMITH / / PHONE: 800-493-7323 or 415-863-8688 / / EMAIL: read@booksmith.com Four poems By August Kleinzahler Watching Young Couples with an Old Girlfriend On Sunday Morning How mild these young men seem to me now with their baggy shorts and clouds of musk, as if younger brothers of the women they escort in tight black leather, bangs and tattoos, cute little toughies, so Louise Brooks ...