SPECIAL FEATURE

OF LIKE MIND:
      New and Selected Poems

ALBERT GOLDBARTH

Albert Goldbarth is Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Wichita State University. He is the author of more than twenty collections of poetry, including Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology, and Saving Lives, both of which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Popular Culture, winner of the Ohio State University/The Journal Award. His books of creative essays include: Many Circles: New and Selected Essays, A Sympathy of Souls, Great Topics of the World, and Dark Waves and Light Matter. He is also the author of a novel, Pieces of Payne (Graywolf). Goldbarth’s other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the P.E.N. West Award, and three NEA Fellowships. In spring 2007 Graywolf Press will publish The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems 1972–2007. Of his poetry, Library Journal observed that “no one can so deftly draw as many large and disparate chunks of the world into a poem.” Albert Goldbarth “just may be the American poet of his generation for the ages,” Judith Kitchen wrote in a feature on him in the Georgia Review. Joyce Carol Oates described Albert Goldbarth this way: “a dazzling virtuoso who can break your heart.”

Note: The new poems included in this collection are “Bungle: A Survey” and “I’m Nobody, Who Are You? Are You Nobody Too?” The thirteen other poems are reprinted from three earlier books that have gone out of print: The Gods (1993), Marriage, and Other Science Fiction (1994), and Adventure in Ancient Egypt (1996). They are reprinted with the permission of the author.

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