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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 Rembrandt mix toward one cohesive vision.
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Irreverent, esoteric, bordering on gory, Albert Goldbarth has assembled an ambitious collection of poetry that takes the reader from the physiological bases of life to the cosmic mysteries of the heavens. He proves himself a master not only of subtle visual and emotional imagery ("The History of Buttons," "The Niggling Mystery"), but also humor, evidenced by a "Letter" to Thoreau inspired by a Harper's Index entry noting that the long-deceased Transcendentalist "received" 90 direct-mail pitches in 1988. Fearless consumers of verse will derive the most pleasure from this splendid compilation, which earned the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.
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ALBERT GOLDBARTH is widely heralded as one of the most creative voices in contemporary American literature. His work frequently appears in the pages of the New Yorker, the Nation, Harper’s, and the major literary reviews. Over the past two decades, he has published nearly two dozen volumes of poems and essays, including Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology (Georgia), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. He has also been a Guggenheim Fellow, the recipient of National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, and a finalist for the National Book Award. Goldbarth is Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Wichita State University.
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