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August Kleinzahler, the bad boy of American poetry, has a drink at one of his hangouts, the Zam Zam bar in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. In literary journals, the 58-year-old New Jersey native takes poets and critics to task for what he perceives as their slights and shoddy work. A few years ago, he even skewered Garrison Keillors radio poetry readings.

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( Robert Durell / Los Angeles Times )

August Kleinzahler, the bad boy of American poetry, has a drink at one of his hangouts, the Zam Zam bar in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. In literary journals, the 58-year-old New Jersey native takes poets and critics to task for what he perceives as their slights and shoddy work. A few years ago, he even skewered Garrison Keillors radio poetry readings.

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