Going Nowhere

Greenberg, Alvin

SIMON AND SCHUSTER

Delta Q: Stories by Alvin Greenberg (Awp (Series), 5.)

Literature & Fiction

United States

Univ of Missouri Pr

Poet and fiction writer Greenberg presents 15 essays, some revised from previous publication, ruminating on self-identity in the familial, spiritual, social, and political planes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The Dog Of Memory: A Family Album of Secrets and Silences

Parenting & Relationships

University of Utah Press

A collection of humorous sonnets responding to the title question. "A charming, often piercing, always readable collection."--Booklist

Why We Live with Animals

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pets & Animal Care

Coffee House Press

Heavy Wings: Poems

Poetry

Ohio Review

Fiction. Walter Job, college professor and family man, has undeniable talents. The professorial life is a natural for him, but so is the art of murder-and it's so much more remunerative. Outwardly serene, he pursues both vocations, has an affair and avoids pursuit. Inwardly his life comes more and more undone. The character of Walter Job is keenly etched on a mirror that reflects his search for what drives him and our violence-prone society. This literate, layered, intriguing novel is a dark tour de force for Alvin Greenberg.

TIME LAPSE

Tupelo Press

Here are Alvin Greenberg's poems of experience, his grown man's tribute to negative capability. He knows we live in a world of indeterminacy, with our various ignorances and failures of language. Yet without prettying-up these conditions, his Hurry Back offers an unsentimental, clear-eyed paean to them, a kind of elegiac lean-to/set right out in the weather because the weather's/what there is and where we do our loving." Though such sagacity pervades this book, these are not poems of resignation. Greenberg knows the birds on the highway "almost always" fly up in time, but he's not going to let that "almost" stop him from driving a little over the speed limit." --Stephen Dunn
About the Author(s)
Alvin Greenberg is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, and librettist. His new novel, Time Lapse, was published in 2003 by Tupelo Press, and The University of Utah Press published his collection of personal essays, The Dog of Memory: A Family Album of Secrets and Silences, in 2002. His most recent collection of short stories, How the Dead Live, appeared in 1998 from Graywolf Press; previous collections include The Man in the Cardboard Mask (Coffee House Press), Delta q(University of Missouri Press), and The Discovery of America (Louisiana State University Press). His collections of poetry include Why We Live with Animals (Coffee House Press) Heavy Wings (Ohio Review Press), and In/Direction (David R. Godine). He has also collaborated on three operas with composer Eric Stokes, most recently Apollonia's Circus (premiered at the University of Minnesota, 1994). After teaching for thirty four years in the Macalester College English Department in St. Paul, Minnesota, he now lives in Boise, Idaho, where his wife, poet Janet Holmes, teaches in the MFA program at Boise State University.

Hurry Back: Poems

Lost Horse Press

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