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Albert Goldbarth is the author of four previous books of essays, including Many Circles: New and Selected Essays, which received the annual PEN West Award for Creative Nonfiction. He is also the author of a novel, Pieces of Payne, and of numerous collections of poetry, two of which have received the National Book Critics Circle Award.<\/p>\n
For over two decades now, Albert Goldbarth has been cultivating his own hybrid essay variety. A marriage of warmth and intelligence, his essays are narratively driven but poetically lyrical, and openly personal while remaining dedicated to the pleasures of arcane research. \u201cThese are a whole new breed, \u201c Robert Atwan writes. \u201cAlbert Goldbarth has spliced strands of the old genre with a powerful new gene, and the results are miraculous.\u201d<\/p>\n
In Griffin, that crossbred creature comprised of eagle, lion, and serpent, Albert Goldbarth joins two essays to form one animal. \u201cRoman Erotic Poetry,\u201d written on the cusp of a friend\u2019s divorce, explores that strangely compound beast we call marriage. \u201cWuramon,\u201d written on the cusp of a friend\u2019s struggle with cancer, considers that strangely compound being every one of us is: an amalgam of spirit and physical body. The resulting book is eccentric, learned, and moving.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlbert Goldbarth is a master mixer, moving from the colloquial to the highbrow, from the decent to the circumspect, from sex to quantum physics\u2026 His interests are various and judicious. He is also supremely entertaining.\u201d<\/em>
\n-Village Voice<\/p>\n\u201cGoldbarth marries emotions, thoughts, and events we never thought to see in proximity to one another: through his genius we rediscover the world\u2019s history and our own.\u201d<\/em>
\n-Frederick Busch<\/p>\n\u201cSupercharged with eclectic information and often quite moving, Goldbarth\u2019s literary essays are an unmitigated delight.\u201d<\/em>
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