Albert Goldbarth (born January 31, 1948) is an
American poet
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. He has won the
National Book Critics Circle
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award for "Saving Lives" (2001) and "Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology" (1991), the only poet to receive the honor two times. He also won the Mark Twain Award for Humorous Poetry, awarded by the
Poetry Foundation
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, in 2008.
Goldbarth is a fellow of the
National Endowment for the Arts
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and the
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
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The poetry of Albert Goldbarth is widely praised, and he has published extensively, with more than 30 collections to his credit, including poetry and essays. He is known for his prolific production, his gregarious tone, his eclectic interests and his distinctive "talky" style. In his review of ''Kitchen Sink'',
David Baker of ''
The Kenyon Review
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'' says: "Albert Goldbarth is ... a contemporary genius with the language itself ... There is simply no contemporary poet like him."
Goldbarth was awarded The Chad Walsh Poetry Prize by the
Beloit Poetry Journal
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in 1969 and his MFA from the
University of Iowa
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in 1971. Goldbarth taught at Cornell University and from 1977 to 1987 at the
University of Texas at Austin
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. From 1987 to 2018, he served as the Adelle V. Davis Distinguished Professor of Humanities at
Wichita State University
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, which houses the Goldbarth Archive in Ablah Library.
Works
*''Coprolites'' (1973, poetry)
*''Jan 31'' (1974, poetry)
*''Opticks'' (1974, poetry)
*''Keeping'' (1975, poetry)
*''Comings Back'' (1976, poetry)
*''Curve, Overlapping Narratives'' (1977, poetry)
*''Different Fleshes, a Novel/Poem'' (1979, poetry)
*''Ink, Blood, Semen'' (1980, poetry)
*''The Smuggler's Handbook'' (1980, poetry)
*''Faith'' (1981, poetry)
*''Eurekas'' (1981, poetry)
*''Goldbarth's Book of Occult Phenomena'' (1982, poetry)
*''Who Gathered and Whispered Behind Me'' (1981, poetry)
*''Original Light'' (1983, poetry)
*''Arts & Sciences'' (1986, poetry)
*''Sympathy of Souls'' (1990, essays)
*''Delft'' (1990, essay-poem)
*''Popular Culture'' (1990, poetry)
*''Heaven and Earth, A Cosmology'' (1991, poetry)
*''The Gods'' (1993, poetry)
*''Across the Layers'' (1993, poetry)
*''Marriage, and Other Science Fiction'' (1994, poetry)
*''Great Topics of the World, Essays'' (1994, essays)
*''Adventures in Ancient Egypt'' (1996, poetry)
*''A Lineage of Ragpickers, Songpluckers, Elegiasts & Jewelers'' (Time Being Books, 1996)
*''Beyond'' (1998, poetry)
*''Dark Waves and Light Matter'' (1999, essays)
*''Many Circles'' (2001, essays)
*''Saving Lives'' (2001, poetry)
*''Combinations of the Universe'' (2002, poetry)
*''Pieces of Payne'' (2003, novel)
*''Budget Travel through Space and Time'' (
Graywolf Press
Graywolf Press is an independent, non-profit publisher located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Graywolf Press publishes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.
Graywolf Press collaborates with organizations such as the College of Saint Benedict, the Mello ...
, 2005, poetry)
*''Griffin'' (2007, essays)
*''The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems 1972-2007'' (
Graywolf Press
Graywolf Press is an independent, non-profit publisher located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Graywolf Press publishes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.
Graywolf Press collaborates with organizations such as the College of Saint Benedict, the Mello ...
, 2007, poetry)
*''To Be Read in 500 Years: Poems'' (
Graywolf Press
Graywolf Press is an independent, non-profit publisher located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Graywolf Press publishes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.
Graywolf Press collaborates with organizations such as the College of Saint Benedict, the Mello ...
, 2009, poetry)
*''The End of Space'' (2012, essays)
*''Everyday People'' (2012, poetry)
*''Keats's Phrase'' (2012, poetry)
*''Selfish'' (
Graywolf Press
Graywolf Press is an independent, non-profit publisher located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Graywolf Press publishes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.
Graywolf Press collaborates with organizations such as the College of Saint Benedict, the Mello ...
, 2015, poetry)
*''The Loves and Wars of Relative Scale: Poems'' (2017, poetry)
*''The Adventures of Form and Content: Essays'' (
Graywolf Press
Graywolf Press is an independent, non-profit publisher located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Graywolf Press publishes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.
Graywolf Press collaborates with organizations such as the College of Saint Benedict, the Mello ...
, 2017, essays)
See also
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Poetry
Poetry (derived from the Greek '' poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meani ...
References
External links
Albert Goldbarth's “Library″ Albert Goldbarth: 2013 National Book Festival (Library of Congress)PBS NewsHour - Junk Man: Poet and Professor Albert Goldbarth (2009)
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1948 births
Living people
American male poets
Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni
20th-century American poets
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American poets
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
University of Texas at Austin faculty
21st-century American male writers
Wichita State University faculty