Poets/Albert Goldbarth

Albert Goldbarth

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Chile, 1834 …

Albert Goldbarth

There might be a planet. Before that, …

Albert Goldbarth

Fire isn’t allowed, for the sake of the books. …

Albert Goldbarth

My father’s been dead for thirty years …

Albert Goldbarth

The renewal project is doomed: because …

Albert Goldbarth

Does she love you? She says yes, but really …

Albert Goldbarth

I’m sitting at Nathan’s, reading a biography of Darwin …

Albert Goldbarth

“Fancy-schmancy,” my father would have said, …

Albert Goldbarth

. . . and then of course the weeping: some demurely, some …

Albert Goldbarth

When visiting a distant (and imponderable) shire, …

Albert Goldbarth

It's the other ones, who soon enough return …

Albert Goldbarth

Yes. So we must reconnect …

Albert Goldbarth

Each morning he’d anoint the room’s four corners …

Albert Goldbarth

John-O was given a key to the apartment. The deal …

Albert Goldbarth

“He was mortared to death.” …

Albert Goldbarth

Upstairs, in the bath, my wife …

Albert Goldbarth

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