The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems 1972-2007

Graywolf Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Fine . 6x1x9. Signed by Author. First Graywolf Printing. Signed "Albert Goldbarth" on title page. Albert Goldbarth has created an unmistakable signature style―learned, copious, hilarious, and heartbreaking―which has so far spanned an award-winning career of thirty-five years. The Kitchen Sink brings together forty new poems with a rich selection of earlier poetry, ranging from the brief, flickering lyric to the long, narrative sequence. In both forms, Goldbarth exerts a wild showmanship and an ever-widening scope to illustrate the complex character and interconnectedness of humanity, history, and art. The Kitchen Sink is the definitive book by one of America's most original and entertaining poets. Albert Goldbarth (born 1948) is an American poet. He has won the National Book Critics Circle award for "Saving Lives" (2001) and "Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology" (1991), the only poet to receive the honor two times. He also won the Mark Twain Award for Humorous Poetry, awarded by the Poetry Foundation, in 2008. Goldbarth is a fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Goldbarth was awarded The Chad Walsh Poetry Prize by the Beloit Poetry Journal in 1994.