Kitchen Sink New And Selected Poems, 1972-2007

"Albert Goldbarth is . . . a contemporary genius with the language itself . . . There is simply no contemporary poet like him." --David Baker,The Kenyon Review Now his, the only overhead turned on. Now nothing else existed: only him, and the book, and the light thrown over his shoulders as luxuriously as a cashmere shawl. --from "Shawl" Albert Goldbarth has created an unmistakable signature style--learned, copious, hilarious, and heartbreaking--which has so far spanned an award-winning career of thirty-five years.The Kitchen Sinkbrings together forty new poems with a rich selection of earlier poetry, ranging from the brief, flickering lyric to the long, narrative sequence. In both forms, Goldbarth exerts a wild showmanship and an ever-widening scope to illustrate the complex character and interconnectedness of humanity, history, and art.The Kitchen Sinkis the definitive book by one of America's most original and entertaining poets.Goldbarth, Albert is the author of 'Kitchen Sink New And Selected Poems, 1972-2007', published 2007 under ISBN 9781555974626 and ISBN 1555974627.