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Albert Goldbarth
These poems are set in, or arise from, the past but, with Goldbarth's characteristic precision, insight, and narrative intelligence, springboard into a conjunction of thought and heart that reminds readers…
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An energetic, eclectic gathering of Goldbarth’s recent essays. They are part meditations and part short stories, part scholarship and part downright sassiness.
The narrative of these poems cover a multitude of topics, from a comic monologue spoken in immigrant Yinglish , to a soulful elegy set in San Antonio’s Pearl Beer plant…
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A collection of poems opening with the author’s book-length Different Fleshes , and closing with the essay-poem Dual . Between these works are poems ranging from a 12-line lyric meditation…
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These poems range from a few tight, resonant lines, to works of long storytelling drive; and from sequences encompassing the most flexible of free verse, to a homage to the…
A new kaleidoscopic itinerary of poems by Albert Goldbarth, twice winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
The glass eye = a prosthetic eye. And a telescope lens?–the dream…
So often (let’s be honest here) we poetswill invent dreams, for our own strategic purposes.But this one is real, and one of the fewI remember. I awoke in the future.
For five decades Albert Goldbarth has been astonishing readers with the erudition, wit, lyric invention, wisdom, and depthless humanity of his prolific writing. He mixes complex ideas, wildly dissimilar objects…
In his latest collection, the incomparable Albert Goldbarth explores all things self-ish : the origins of identity, the search for ancestry, the neurology of self-awareness, and the line between self…
A poetry chapbook by Albert Goldbarth?! What luck!
Focusing with equal energy at the imposing sky and at our own home planet, Albert Goldbarth moves from hosannah-choiring angels to a single peach pit glistening on the tongue of…
A collection of poems examining life from a quasi-science-fiction perspective.
When Albert Goldbarth’s Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology received the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award, the citation called it a dazzling, delirious book as full of zest and joy…
This collection of poetry ranges from sonnet-sized meditations to extended narratives, from myth-laden journeys to pop cultural autobiography. The centrepiece is the award-winning prose and verse narrative, The Two Domains.
Albert Goldbarth's new collection is a community of poems that makes room for other voices than the autobiographical "I": some fantastical, some historical/celebrity, some the neighbours down the block.
The…
True to its title, The Loves and Wars of Relative Scale is a community of poems that address ideas of perspective, of proximity-of what happens when the large-scale universe collides…
Many Circles collects the best of Goldbarth’s three earlier essay collections, along with several new pieces. Goldbarth, whom Joyce Carol Oates has called a dazzling virtuoso who can break your…
Albert Goldbarth has created an unmistakable signature style: learned, copious, hilarious and heartbreaking. The Kitchen Sink brings together 40 new poems with a rich selection of earlier poetry, ranging from…
An astounding work of doubles by Albert Goldbarth, a dazzling virtuoso who can break your heart (Joyce Carol Oates)
Albert Goldbarth’s first book of essays in a decade, The Adventures…
Poems that Consider the Disappearance of Language in an Age of Digital Communication
The not-at-all-everyday new poetry collection by Albert Goldbarth, twice winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
I brought a book of many wordsto an emptiness in my heart…
