He is the author of ten books of poetry, including "The Strange Hours Travelers Keep," and of one prose book, the meditative memoir "Cutty, One Rock: Low Characters and Strange Places, Gently Explained." Allen Ginsberg wrote of him: "August Kleinzahler's verse line is always precise, concrete, intelligent and rare-that quality of 'chiseled' verse memorable in Basil Bunting's and Ezra Pound's work. A loner, a genius."moreless