The Wonder-World - by Albert Goldbarth (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

For more than half a century, Albert Goldbarth has been one of America's most celebrated and distinctive poets. A two-time recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, he returns with a vibrant new collection, The Wonder-World.

The Wonder-World confronts the losses and betrayals of life while finding enduring wonder in the worlds of art, history, science, and the cosmos. Ripe with both comedy and elegy, and leaping across time from the intimate modern mundane to the pre-historical, these poems bring together an eclectic cast--Julius Cesear, Michael Jackson, Anne Sexton, Abagail Adams, the Pope, and the speaker's wife and dear friends--in a shared exploration of what it means to be human.

Rich with imagination, moral gravity, and Goldbarth's signature wit, this collection illuminates both our fragility and our miraculous resilience.

Review Quotes

"One of the best poets of our time." ―Alberto Manguel, Times Literary Supplement

"Albert Goldbarth just may be the American poet of his generation for the ages." ―Judith Kitchen, The Georgia Review

"American poetry will never again see a figure quite like Albert Goldbarth." ―David Wojahn, The Kenyon Review

"Albert Goldbarth has amassed a body of work as substantial and intelligent as that of anyone in his generation." ―Harvard Review

"Albert Goldbarth is a major poet: brilliant, moving, and wildly entertaining. . . . [His poems] are also among the most generous poems written today, the most worthy of attention and pleasurable." ―Pleiades

About the Author

Albert Goldbarth is the author of more than twenty-five books of poetry. He has won the National Book Critics Circle award for two of his collections, the only poet to receive the honor twice. He is also the recipient of the Mark Twain Award for Humorous Poetry, the Milt Kessler Award, and a Poetry Foundation Pegasus Award, among many others. He lives in Wichita, KS.