Awards
Winner of the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry
Synopses & Reviews
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"Generously intelligent, Goldbarth's own 'zestily done humbuggeries' remind us that reading is no less an act of discovery and creative preservation than writing." Library Journal
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"Goldbarth so deftly, imaginatively, and affectionately portrays [his characters] figures wreathed in sexy, scientific, and philosophical musings and in metaphors and insights as piercing as they are beautiful." Donna Seaman, Booklist
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"Goldbarth moves easily from big, serious, personal topics...to quirky phrases and delightful facts....Goldbarth's poems do not offer the concentration, the once-and-for-all rightness, of most lyric: mostly they are lineated essays, meant, tender, personal and fun." Publishers Weekly