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Albert Goldbarth Biography

Albert Goldbarth is an American poet (born January 31, 1948). He has won the National Book Critics Circle 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, in 2008. Goldbarth is a fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

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If you agree with me that a poem can be as bountiful as a rich Victorian narrative, and as wise. . . then you'll want to join me here in the Wow, I Like No Need of Sympathy Club. Your membership fee is the same as your membership privileges: this book.

Agree, Book, Needs, Wise, Wow

Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow, Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle, Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town and History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down.

Biology, Night, Psychology, Rainbow, Rise, Tomorrow

Perhaps you have seen me. I know well, my purpose was merely that of a symbol, 'equals', 'times'. . . ; but what is said, for all that, was identity-less: a kind of live geometry.

Identity, Live, Merely, Purpose, Science, Seen

I don't spend time thinking about an aesthetic out of which I create or an ideal toward which my body of work is heading. It's amazing, when I read interviews with other poets, to see how articulately they discuss their own writing, as if they were sharing long-held theories on the work of Pope or Keats. I'm happy enough that I've poured the best of myself into the poems themselves.

Ideal, Long, Poured, Theories, Thinking, Writing

Physics says: go to sleep. Of course you're tired. Every atom in you has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes nonstop from mitosis to now. Quit tapping your feet. They'll dance inside themselves without you.

Atom, Feet, Physics, Shoes, Sleep, Tired

I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or cultural studies. I don't want to give a poetry reading and have to provide the story behind the poem in order for it to make sense to an audience. I certainly don't want the poem to require a critical intermediary - a "spokescritic. " I want my poems to be independently meaningful moments of power for a good reader. And that's the expectation I initially bring to other poets' writing.

Hope, Meaningful, Reading, Spokescritic, Writing

Corey Stoll

Corey Stoll

Charlotte Church

Charlotte Church

Fumiko Enchi

Fumiko Enchi

Henri Etienne Sainte-Claire Deville

Henri Etienne Sainte-Claire Deville

Tom Tancredo

Tom Tancredo

Carwyn Jones

Carwyn Jones

Ettore Messina

Ettore Messina

Henry Joy McCracken

Henry Joy McCracken

Stewart Raffill

Stewart Raffill

Beauford Delaney

Beauford Delaney

Phil Angelides

Phil Angelides

Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi

Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi