"August Kleinzahler" is an American poet.

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The New Jersey character - at least this part of Jersey - is straightforward, plainspoken to the point of bluntness, though not at all unfriendly, ... The humor is deadpan, ironical, playfully depreciating. Affectation is quickly and viscerally registered.

I don't like to call myself a poet, ... Most poets are shiftless, no-account fools.