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Finalist for the 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize
“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
“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, starred review
“Albert Goldbarth is a national treasure, one
of America’s most original and entertaining poets.”
—SANFORD HERALD
Albert
Goldbarth has created an unmistakable signature style—erudite,
copious, hilarious, and heartbreaking—which has so far spanned an award-winning
career of thirty-five years. The Kitchen Sink brings
together his newest work with a selection of earlier poetry, ranging from the
brief, flickering lyric to the long, narrative sequence. In both forms,
Goldbarth exerts a wild showmanship and an ever-widening scope to illustrate
the complex character and interconnectedness of humanity, history, and art. The
Kitchen Sinkis the
definitive book by one of America’s most original and entertaining poets. “Goldbarth is one of our most ambitious and remarkable
poets, and this generous collection gathers more than 125 of his pieces,
ranging from the mythic to the autobiographical, to get at the struggles and
small satisfactions of contemporary life.”
—THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
“A collection of collections on a number of levels,
dazzling, enlightening, serious, and elegant in its scope and intelligence—and
riddled with humor.”
—THE LITERARY REVIEW
“Goldbarth marries emotions, thoughts, and events we
never thought to see in proximity to one another; through his genius we
rediscover the world's history and our own. No one else now is writing what
Albert Goldbarth gives us because no one else can.”
—FREDERICK BUSCH
“Goldbarth’s buoyancy and curiosity make for many richly
textured, inventive poems.”
