Between Sleeping & Waking
Sometimes in the Mist
Published on 1. May 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
88 pages
978-1-7333400-1-4 (ISBN)
Description
Albert Goldbarth's new collection is a community of poems that makes room for other voices than the autobiographical "I": some fantastical, some historical/celebrity, some the neighbours down the block.
The poems themselves offer a rich spectrum of possibilities, from the comic to the grievous, from a poem of five lines to a poem of six pages, but all presented by a poet whose broad understanding of history and of a wide range of character types allows him to people his writing with everyone from presidents to prostitutes, and from ancient mythmakers to contemporary celebrities - all the while remaining present as a smart and earnest voice.
The poems themselves offer a rich spectrum of possibilities, from the comic to the grievous, from a poem of five lines to a poem of six pages, but all presented by a poet whose broad understanding of history and of a wide range of character types allows him to people his writing with everyone from presidents to prostitutes, and from ancient mythmakers to contemporary celebrities - all the while remaining present as a smart and earnest voice.
Reviews / Votes
Albert Goldbarth's new collection is a community of poems that makes room for other voices than the autobiographical 'I': some fantastical, some historical/celebrity, some the neighbors down the block. The poems themselves offer a rich spectrum of possibilities, from the comic to the grievous, from a poem of five lines to a poem of six pages, but all presented by a poet whose broad understanding of history and of a wide range of character types allows him to people his writing with everyone from presidents to prostitutes, and from ancient mythmakers to contemporary celebrities--all the while remaining present as a smart and earnest voice." - Stephen Corey, editor of the Georgia ReviewMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Sandpoint
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
204 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7333400-1-4 (9781733340014)
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Person
Albert Goldbarth has been publishing poetry collections of note for forty-five years--two of which have received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Individual poems have appeared in hundreds of periodicals from the New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine to Kayak and Clown War. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Poetry Foundation, he lives in Wichita, Kansas.