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 the sweep of the earth's ecocycles to the particles of quantum physics.
In these poems surgeons, lovers, astronauts, psychiatrists, and priests embark on the same far journey, traveling into the universe of what it means to be human, exploring "how the world works." Here, the ancient Egyptian afterlife and the atrocities of the 10 o'clock news, the realm of guacamole chip dip and the life of...
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 p...
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 in the sweep of its learning and the warmth of its affections: Goldbarth is manna in the desert, a cure for what ails our poetry." Now Goldbarth offers "Across the Layers: Poems Old and New," which allows the poet to reconsider recent and previously published work in a continuum of wide stylistic variety and yet deep unifying concerns.
The collection opens with his book-length...
When Albert Goldbarth's "Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology" received the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award, the citation called it "a dazzling, d...
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-scale joys and disasters. But this collection is not a dry treatment of its subject: love affairs, a dramatic encounter with whales, and visits to famous consciousness-altering historic moments all lead up to a bravura narrative poem about Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, the first person to recognizably see the submicroscopic world. Poems brief, long, contemplative, comic . . . two time National...
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 happ...
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 in the sweep of its learning and the warmth of its affections". Now Goldbarth offers Across the Layers, which allows the poet to reconsider recent and previously published work.
When Albert Goldbarth's Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology received the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award, the citation called it "a dazzling, deliri...
