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 afterlife
against the grain of this one. For a slowing down
to the pace of a person too absorbed
in the glory and grit
to work up any hurry for departing it.
| ISBN: | 9780822966692 |
| Publication date: | 2nd November 2021 |
| Author: | Albert Goldbarth |
| Publisher: | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 115 pages |
| Series: | Pitt Poetry Series |
| Genres: |
Poetry |
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.
Other Worlds features in the following genres: Poetry
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Other Worlds was written by Albert Goldbarth and published by University of Pittsburgh Press
Other Worlds has 115 pages
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