“In the hands of a poet like Goldbarth…the whole is so much more than the dribblingly delicious sum of its parts.” —The Los Angeles Times

“This long collection is just right for this poet of excess and enthusiasms, always hoping to show, and often showing, how ‘the world// not only works but networks.’” —✩Publishers Weekly

“Goldbarth’s imagination is nomadic, his curiosity omnivorous, taking him to 17th century Prague and an encounter with a golem, to Rembrandt’s studio where Gypsy Rose Lee happens to drop in, to the Chicago neighborhood he grew up in.  Albert could outtalk and outwit Leno and Letterman, Stewart and Colbert; he’s much funnier than all of them.” —Parnassus

“Albert Goldbarth is a national treasure, one of America’s most original and entertaining poets.” —Sanford Herald