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A new kaleidoscopic itinerary of poems by Albert Goldbarth, twice winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award "The glass eye = a prosthetic eye."And a telescope lens?--the dream life"of the glass eye when it's closed." --from "About the Dead" Albert Goldbarth's trusty travel guide, "Budget Travel through Space and Time, " is a steal. For only $14.00, you can: - Observe the nation of Tuvalu sinking into the Pacific!- Discover Goldbarth's L...

Albert Goldbarth "just may be the American poet of his generation for the ages", says Judith Kitchen in a recent feature on him in the Georgia Review. "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". This new volume, Saving Lives, both consolidates and extends his passions and th...

Albert Goldbarth is "a dazzling virtuoso who can break your heart" (Joyce Carol Oates)How is Eliza's divorce connected to the rise of twentieth-century quantum physics? Why does the steamy promise of "a key unlocking a door at a cheap motel along I-35" lead us to a consideration of "Moby-Dick"? What does one physician's fake appointment book have to do with Columbus, werewolves, and Fanny Burney's famously excruciating nineteenth-century maste...

Many Circles" collects the best of Goldbarth's three earlier essay collections, along with several new pieces. Goldbarth, whom Joyce Carol Oates has called "a dazzling virtuoso who can break your heart, " weaves through an array of fascinating topics (including alien life, Jewish history, pop culture, ancient and recent events, and quantum physics) to explore the greater questions of our existence and our universe. Each essay, in language and ...

Albert Goldbarth's personal essays are known for their marriage of poetically rich language with research into intriguingly arcane corners of our culture. "Goldbarth is a master mixer", says the Village Voice, and The New York Times Book Review calls his prose "an artful joining of disparate entities into something new that illuminates as it entertains".Dark Waves and Light Matter is an energetic, eclectic gathering of Goldbarth's recent essay...