Other Worlds (9780822966692)
University of Pittsburgh Press
Paperback 112 pages English Nov 02, 2021
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Other Worlds is true to its title, from a look at our everyday joys and griefs as interpreted by the Mars of classic science fiction and the crazy domain of quantum physics; to studies of the many conflicting realities that America uneasily accommodates in a time of pandemic and protests; to elegiac poems informed by the realms of memory, ghosts, and imagined afterlives. From a poem of one line to a sequence of twelve sections, from comic hijinks to despair, and from private revelation to public declaiming, this is a bravura performance by the only poet to have twice received the National Book Critics Circle Award and who, at age seventy-three, is writing at the height of his powers. Excerpt from "Last Song" I choose the other way, with heels dug in.I vote for screaming yearningly. For heading into the afterlifeagainst the grain of this one. For a slowing downto the pace of a person too absorbedin the glory and gritto work up any hurry for departing it.
- Author:
- Albert Goldbarth
- Publisher:
- University of Pittsburgh Press
- Publication Date:
- Nov 02, 2021
- Number of pages:
- 112 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0822966697
- ISBN-13:
- 9780822966692