Everyday people
By: Albert Goldbarth
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9781555976033
Subjects: Poetry; American poetry
Work titles: Poems
Description: Virtuoso poet Albert Goldbarth returns with a new collection that describes the wonders of everyday peopleoverprotective parents, online gamblers, newlyweds, Hercules, and Jesus. In Goldbarths poetryexpansive, wild, and hilarioushe argues that our ordinary failures, heroics, joy, and grief are worth giving voice to, giving thanks for. Everyday People is an extraordinary new book by a poet who 2in thirty-five years of writing has amassed a body of work as substantial and intelligent as that of anyone in his generation. -- (William Doreski, The Harvard Review).
Table of contents: title: Most of us; title: Everyday people (1): Everyday people ; Natural state ; Our heroine Ellen, and three pals ; 'The human condition' ; The poem of the little house at the corner of Misapprehension and Marvel ; Miles; title: What we were like (1): How did they live? ; A story ; The winds ; STD ; Ws ; Minnows, darters, sturgeon ; Bone ; October ; Coming back ; An explanation; title: Emma (and others): Emma (Mrs. Charles) Darwin ; The asparagus tongs ; With quotes from William Irvine's account of the 19th century scientist-explorer Thomas Huxley's life ; Goth boy : an instruction ; The storm ; Dynamics ; The poem of the dance of the real ; A great volume ; Charles's compliment; title: Everyday people (2): Zones ; Struck together ; Honeycomb, calling ; Whatever surrogate ; Photographs of the interiors of dictators' houses ; A few of the ways to say it ; Our argument, like the thunderstorm ; That re- (what we are) ; The nose in feet ; Altered ; Over miles of Iowa fields: snorkel, karaoke, leaf ; Round, polished stones; title: What we were like (2): The lamps ; Perception poem ; Crazy way ; Smallish ; Off from shore ; The poppy fields of Afghanistan ; A typo for 'paths of gravel' on page 17 of Jack Williamson's Demon Moon (Tor Books) ; A weather ; Before refrigeration ; "A toast!" ; A partial list of unacknowledged musics (feel free to add your own) ; Countries; title: The severed stone head of Shiva's wife, and the bionic stripper, and Thoreau, and the cabin boy in Tahiti, and the pearl diver ravished by octopi (and others): The versions ; Return suite : the little chick ; That was the year ; Unseen ; The story of wax and wane ; Linear ; Bright motes in the corner of your eye; title: Toward it: Prophecy song ; "The slips for G" ; A word of warning ; The whole of the law of our human vision ; The bivalves proof ; Disproportionate ; Toward it ; Practice journey; title: What we were like (3): "He held out his hand. 'Zarth has told me that this was the gesture of greeting in your time.'".