Keynote
Now in paperback, the career-spanning retrospective by Albert Goldbarth, the only poet to have won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry twice
Book Title
The Kitchen Sink
Subtitle
New and Selected Poems, 1972-2007
Cover Image
- A Finalist for the 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Body
Now his, the only
overhead turned on. Now nothing else existed:
only him, and the book, and the light thrown over his
shoulders
as luxuriously as a cashmere shawl.
—from “Shawl”
Albert Goldbarth has created an unmistakable signature style—learned, copious, hilarious, and heartbreaking. The Kitchen Sink brings together forty new poems with a rich selection of earlier poetry, ranging from the brief, flickering lyric to the long, narrative sequence. This is the definitive book by one of America’s most original and entertaining poets.
overhead turned on. Now nothing else existed:
only him, and the book, and the light thrown over his
shoulders
as luxuriously as a cashmere shawl.
—from “Shawl”
Albert Goldbarth has created an unmistakable signature style—learned, copious, hilarious, and heartbreaking. The Kitchen Sink brings together forty new poems with a rich selection of earlier poetry, ranging from the brief, flickering lyric to the long, narrative sequence. This is the definitive book by one of America’s most original and entertaining poets.
List Price
$18.00
Purchase at
Purchase at:
About the Author
Credit: Michael Pointer
Praise
- “In the hands of a poet like Goldbarth…the whole is so much more than the dribblingly delicious sum of its parts.”—Los Angeles Times
- “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
