The Wonder-World
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Themes:
- Family
- Humor
- Aging
- Jewish
Category:
- New Release
- Poetry
ISBN: 9781968507350
Publication Date: 2027-04-27
About This Title
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 Caesar, Michael Jordan, Anne Sexton, Abigail 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.
Praise for Albert Goldbarth
“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