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 Madame Renoir, from th
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 with our human-sc
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 of Form and Con
A new anthology of poetry brings together forty new poems with a selection of older works representing a variety of poetic forms--ranging from the concise lyric to a long narrative sequence--to explor
A"Albert Goldbarth is . . . a contemporary genius with the language itself . . . There is simply no contemporary poet like him.A"A--David Baker, The Kenyon Review&
A new kaleidoscopic itinerary of poems by Albert Goldbarth, twice winner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardThe glass eye = a prosthetic eye.And a telescope lens?—the dream lifeof the glass eye
Albert Goldbarth’s personal essays are known for their marriage of poetically rich language with research into intriguingly arcane corners of our culture. ?Goldbarth is a master mixer,” says the Villa
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 as it is prodigal
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 words to an emptiness in my heart, and I sho
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.&nbs
Cultural Writing. Essays. For over two decades now, Albert Goldbarth has been cultivating his own hybrid essay variety. A marriage of warmth and intelligence, his essays are narratively driven but poe
