Albert Goldbarth, Author . Graywolf $16 (310p) ISBN 978-1-55597-321-6
Goldbarth's virtuosic essays bob and weave throughout this delightful, even brilliant, collection. Well worth reading and rereading, some of these pieces from the past 21 years were published in journals such as the Georgia Review
and...
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Albert Goldbarth, Author . Ohio State Univ. $45 (136p) ISBN 978-0-8142-5073-0
Hard on the heels of the poetry of Beyond
(1998) and Troubled Lovers in History
(1999), and almost simultaneous with Many Circles: New and Selected Essays
—which follows 1999's Dark Waves and Light Matter: Essays
—comes this...
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Albert Goldbarth, Author . Graywolf $15 (208p) ISBN 978-1-55597-378-0
In his first foray into fiction, prize-winning poet (Saving Lives) and essayist (Many Circles) Goldbarth offers a wide-ranging exploration of ideas, incorporating concepts and tidbits from science, references to the arts, snippets of history and a...
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Albert Goldbarth, Author . Graywolf $15 (120p) ISBN 978-1-55597-416-9
Goldbarth's 23rd volume of verse begins with a joke about astrophysics and ends with a man kneeling to kiss "the mouth of the Sphinx"; in between, the improbably exuberant, undeniably polymathic and frequently moving poems and sequences...
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Albert Goldbarth, Author . Graywolf $26 (345p) ISBN 978-1-55597-462-6
Few books of poems have sported more apt titles: in 29 earlier books, the almost implausibly prolific Goldbarth (Budget Travel Through Space and Time
) has mentioned almost every poetic topic, many that no poet before him has tried. Sometimes...
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Albert Goldbarth, Author . Graywolf $16 (176p) ISBN 978-1-55597-525-8
Goldbarth’s ample output, frequently comic effects, reader-friendly free verse and almost dauntingly omnivorous reference—from Roman history to cardiology to 1950s science fiction—have slowed down what might otherwise be the...
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Albert Goldbarth, Author University of Georgia Press $18.95 (136p) ISBN 978-0-8203-1300-9
Goldbarth's ( Popular Culture ) ``cosmology'' involves a scientific reading of life, one that puts into perspective the chemical and physical (as in physics) aspects of love, spirituality and aestheticism, seeking the ``reassurance / of weight and...
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Albert Goldbarth, Author Ohio State University Press $21.95 (136p) ISBN 978-0-8142-5015-0
Goldbarth's wackily polymathic exuberance now confronts his scariest foes yet: human separateness, divorce, the parts of the psyche that split couples up. These poems attend to the unknowable variousness of other people's needs: ""out of what...
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Albert Goldbarth, Author Ohio State University Press $14.95 (104p) ISBN 978-0-8142-0715-4
Goldbarth is fearless in the face of world and personal history, and never less than dazzling in his ability to mate the two in verse. In ""The Saga of Stupidity and Wonder,"" he tells us why even the most ridiculous absurdity deserves attention: ""I
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Albert Goldbarth, Author Ohio State University Press $35 (95p) ISBN 978-0-8142-0498-6
Goldbarth ( Jan. 31 ) here infuses the gewgaws of pop culture--from science fiction to rock 'n' roll--with fresh energy and wit. Writing from the point of view of a boy-man narrator whose father's death has prompted him to relive special moments of...
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Albert Goldbarth, Author Ohio State University Press $35 (119p) ISBN 978-0-8142-0650-8
Goldbarth (Original Light) has written yet another quirky, compassionate book, drawing together his many enthusiasms-for the sciences, the arts and literature-into a new and expansive universe. The writer's focus shifts constantly. His diction moves
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Albert Goldbarth, Author Ohio State University Press $19.95 (125p) ISBN 978-0-8142-0595-2
In his latest offering the prolific, many-faceted Goldbarth (who won a National Book Critics Circle Award for Heaven & Earth: A Cosmology ) adopts a tragicomic stance, deifying just about anything (a 15-page masterpiece makes a god of Speedy Alka-Sel
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Albert Goldbarth, Author David R. Godine Publisher $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-56792-017-8
Poet Goldbarth's essays are singular hybrids, seamlessly melding autobiography, history, fantasy, myth. ``Delft'' features an imagined encounter between painter Jan Vermeer and microscopist Anton van Leeuwenhoek, set against a meditation on fleas...
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Albert Goldbarth. Graywolf, $18 trade paper (178p) ISBN 978-1-55597-603-3
Detractors call Goldbarth prolific to a fault, but admirers say, with great justice, that they just can’t get enough: the poet’s 20-odd books reflect an irrepressible energy. Who else could bring into the same poem medieval bestiaries, “an eyeleted...
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Albert Goldbarth. Graywolf (FSG, dist.), $20 trade paper (184p) ISBN 978-1-55597-708-5
Irrepressibly exuberant and well known for being prolific, Goldbarth (Everyday People) delivers another big set of verse essays, free associations, and reactions to “this popcult free-for-all—this achronologica/ dice-and-resplice American shmooshed-u
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Albert Goldbarth, Essay by, Albert Goldbarth, Author University of Georgia Press $24.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-8203-2126-4
Supercharged with eclectic information and often quite moving, Goldbarth's literary essays are an unmitigated delight. His appealingly jumpy mind sees parallels between the most farfetched data, myths and anecdotes: rather than turning out one essay
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