August Kleinzahler, a Poet Who Loves His Smith-Corona Typewriter

San Francisco’s Angry Poet

One of my favorite poets, August Kleinzahler, uses a Smith-Corona typewriter exclusively, and sometimes while sitting on the toilet. In the photo, 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.

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