A collection of personal essays explores everyday traumas and triumphs and draws on memories and events from the author's life and that of his family

Great Topics of the World: Essays

Literature & Fiction

GOLDBARTH, ALBERT

Contemporary

Picador USA

Jan. 31

Albert Goldbarth. Jan. 31. First edition. Garden City, Doubleday, 1974. 14 cm x 21 cm. XII, 103 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss - american - irish poet Chuck Kruger. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Enclosed is a publisher's information leaflet for Goldbarth's book Without Loss. Contains among others the following poems: Hard Times; Song For Natural Defences; Three Anatomical Points; Winter Lore; Tidings; The Class Of 65; Through the State; People Are Dropping Out Of Our Lives; Warning the Crowd; Against The Odor; Self-Protection; Becoming Landscape; Intercourse In Bad Weather; The Always etc.

DOUBLEDAY

Comings back: A sequence of poems

Winner of the 1989 Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award in Poetry.

Popular Culture (Winner of the Osup Journal Award)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Ohio State Univ Pr

POPULAR CULTURE (OSU JOURNAL AWARD POETRY)

Poetry

Ohio State University Press

Current recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry, Albert Goldbarth now offers The Gods, his survey (part spiritual, part sly and snazzy) of ideas of deity in our half-crazed late twentieth century.In this new collection, Goldbarth casts his omnivorous intelligence into a landscape where plaster lawn ornaments of the Virgin Mary and of scoop-necked flamenco danseuses are frozen side-by-side in their gamboling. The poems are various in tone and direction, ranging from one-page lyrics to, for example, a semi-narrative mock heroic epic on the adventures of the deity Speedy Alka-Seltzer. They loop from the devout to the ribald and back again, they chronicle Goldbarth's immigrant grandparents (mixing it up with Bruegel, Houdini, and others), and they extend through the everyday details of our joys and griefs to the far hearts of stars and the measureless ticking of subatomic particles.But what connects these poems into a unified whole is the book's exploration of modes of faith. For this venture Goldbarth seems to be especially qualified. Reviewing him in the New Yorker, Helen Vendler said, "Half of Goldbarth's imagination ... is what is usually called religious. Goldbarth's tenderness toward the mystical does not however, vitiate his enormous curiosity, or the momentum of his zest, or his sympathy of souls with the historical personages he resuscitates.... His rhetoric is eager to mirror the number of things the world is full of, the unexpected fulfillments it holds in its arms."This is a book both wild and wise, by a writer the National Book Critics Circle has cited for being "manna in the desert, a cure for what ails our poetry."

The Gods

The Gods: Poems by Albert Goldbarth

Gathers poems exploring life at the end of the twentieth century that draw upon the poet's enthusiasm for science, art, and literature

Marriage and Other Science Fiction

Gathers poems exploring life at the end of the twentieth century that draw upon the poet's enthusiasm for science, art, and literature

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Great Topics of the World: Essays

Jan. 31

Jan. 31

Comings back: A sequence of poems

Popular Culture (Winner of the Osup Journal Award)

POPULAR CULTURE (OSU JOURNAL AWARD POETRY)

The Gods

The Gods: Poems by Albert Goldbarth

Marriage and Other Science Fiction

Marriage and Other Science Fiction