Synopses & Reviews
Review
"Albert Goldbarth has extraordinary lyric and imagistic gifts, which are ail too often marred by an overindulgence of effect: he breathes out much more than he breathes in. In addition, since he purports to anthropological/socio-cultural knowledge in his poetry, he would do well to avoid the reductionistic texts of Joseph Campbell and such like, and begin to read the works of Victor Turner, Gregory Bateson, et. al. Still any poet who can write poems such as 'Translation From Far Away' deserves praise and attention." Reviewed by Robert Jackson, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)