Arts and Sciences - Softcover

Goldbarth, Albert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865380570 ISBN 13: 9780865380578

Publisher: Persea Books, 1986

Synopsis

Poems deal with evolution, animals, history, genius, learning, artists, poets, war, and travel

About this title

From Library Journal:

Goldbarth's discursive poems juxtapose personal incident, scientific fact, cultural history, and metaphysical speculation. Because his intelligence is wide-ranging, they are never less than interesting. When Goldbarth can fuse fact and speculation with feelingas in "Knees/Dura-Europos," a powerful though poorly titled meditation on the role of suffering given greater resonance by the historical contexthis poems succeed. When they fail, as does "Problem Solving," it is because the emotional center of the poem (in this case, feelings about the birth of a child) becomes lost among the ideas and associations brought to bear on it. Luckily, Goldbarth succeeds more often than not, making this a notable addition to his rapidly expanding body of work. For most collections. Lawrence Rungren, Bedford Free P.L., Mass.
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Review:

A Book About Rembrandt
Cathay
A Deep And Craving Hunger ... For The Past
Durer
The Elements
Hunt
Khirbet Shema
Knees %dura-europos
Matchbox
Neologisms
The Numbering At Bethlehem
Paolo Uccello
Personal
The Poem Of The Praises
Poem Whose Last Sentence Is 17 Syllables After A Suggestion
Problem Solving
Reading In
The Real War
Second Level
Tarpan And Aurochs
Theory Of Absolute Forms
U
Vestigial
The Ways And Means Committee
We're Just About To Observe The Edge Of The Universe
A Window Seat
Wings
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: Persea Books
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0865380570
• ISBN 13: 9780865380578
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 107