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“Again Goldbarth directs his
amazing collection of little-known facts toward the same simple truths: people
fall in and out of love, grow old, die, and hope to be remembered, even as
Goldbarth hopes to remember and cherish every odd quotation he incorporates
from an ‘astute, high-style comic strip,’ from Whitney Houston, from Charles
Darwin, from his friends, all treated with a sympathetic and finally optimistic
gusto, ‘large and excited and various and full of that / exuberance we call
everyday life.’”
—Publishers
Weekly, starred review
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Price: $18.00 USD
Poetry 978155976033, 196 pages, Paper
Virtuoso poet Albert Goldbarth returns with a new
collection that describes the wonders of everyday people—overprotective parents,
online gamblers, newlyweds, Hercules, and Jesus. In Goldbarth’s
poetry—expansive, wild, and hilarious—he argues that our ordinary failures,
heroics, joy, and grief are worth giving voice to, giving thanks for. Everyday People is an extraordinary new book
by a poet who “in thirty-five years of writing has amassed a body of work as
substantial and intelligent as that of anyone in his generation” (William
Doreski, The Harvard Review).
Praise for Albert Goldbarth:
“When I read [Goldbarth’s] poetry, I recall what was said of Coleridge’s conversation, that it was so
wide-ranging and so freighted with curious speculation, that his listeners were
dazzled. . . . It is flat-out fascinating from beginning to end.”
—Mark
Jarman, The Hudson Review
"In the hands of a poet like Goldbarth . . . the whole is so much more than the
dribblingly delicious sum of its parts, your jaw just has to drop.”
“Albert Goldbarth is a
distinctive and prolific poet, a contemporary genius with the language itself.
. . . There is simply no contemporary poet like him."
“Albert Goldbarth must be accounted one of our most considerable poets.”
—Poetry
“Albert
Goldbarth just may be the American poet of his generation for the ages. Often humorous
but always serious, Goldbarth combines erudite research, pop-culture
fanaticism, and personal anecdote in ways that make his writings among the most
stylistically recognizable in the literary world.”
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