The Loves and Wars of Relative Scale
Poems
Will be published approx. on 1. March 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
70 pages
978-0-9968584-7-2 (ISBN)
Description
True to its title, The Loves and Wars of Relative Scale is a community of poems that address ideas of perspective, of proximity--of what happens when the large-scale universe collides with our human-scale joys and disasters. But this collection is not a dry treatment of its subject: love affairs, a dramatic encounter with whales, and visits to famous consciousness-altering historic moments all lead up to a bravura narrative poem about Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, the first person to recognizably see the submicroscopic world. Poems brief, long, contemplative, comic . . . two time National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Albert Goldbarth delivers another dynamic experience.
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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: 216 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
136 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9968584-7-2 (9780996858472)
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The author of over twenty collections of poetry and three collections of essays, Albert Goldbarth has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Goldbarth's poetry has been nominated for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He has won the National Book Critics Circle award for Saving Lives and Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology, the only poet to receive the honor two times. In 2008, he was awarded the Mark Twain Poetry Award from the Poetry Foundation. Goldbarth has taught for many years at Wichita State University, where he is the Adele Davis Distinguished Professor of Humanities.