Bibliograph

Selfish, poems, Albert Goldbarth

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Selfish, poems, Albert Goldbarth

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

poetry

Main title

Selfish

Oclc number

889165164

Responsibility statement

Albert Goldbarth

Sub title

poems

Summary

In his latest collection, the incomparable Albert Goldbarth explores all things "self-ish": the origins of identity, the search for ancestry, the neurology of self-awareness, and the line between "self" and "other." Whether one line long or ten pages, whether uproariously comic or steeped in gravitas, these are poems that address our human essence

Table Of Contents

Lineage(s) -- Snow -- Lineage -- On the Way -- Metonymy -- Liquid -- His Creatures -- The Stem -- The Disappearance of the Nature Poem into the Nature Poem -- Keats's Phrase -- Smith's Cloud -- Snow and Air and Irving -- Song -- Everyday Life on Planet Albert -- Secondary -- Noon -- Jung/Malena/Darwin -- Deep Ink -- Big Things -- Our Reference -- To This -- "An isosceles triangle was the same on Earth or Mars." -- Oh -- Ong/Eugene/Monet -- 215 N. Fountain -- The Point at Which My Wife Enters a Poem about the National Geographic Cover Story (November 2009) "Are We Alone?" -- Wings -- The Song of Us against Vaster Patterns -- Go Too -- Doozie -- Away -- The Song of What We See -- Benny -- Midnight -- Selfish -- After the Broken Shoulder, -- My Personal Mythology -- The Story of My Life -- "What Would Darwin Say?" -- Dub -- Mapped -- Being Norman Dubie -- Two Brothers -- The Neutron Bomb -- "Try the selfish," -- Other Lives -- Encyclopedia Brittany -- Her One Good Dress -- 22 -- "If you saw even the first rocket take-off for Mars," -- Of the Generality -- Silences -- Etc.'s Wife -- Detective/Woody/Sci Fi -- World -- "The Pulses -- Lepidopteran -- Street Signs -- "Who carries a telephone book with them when they are running from a war?" -- Summary: Kinetic vs. Potential -- Left Behind -- As the World Turns -- A Gold Coin of Kumaragupta I (Minted AD 415-450) -- I Remember the Look of My Ex-Wife Sitting Quietly in the Window on a Certain Day -- We Focus on Love, When It's Death; We Focus on Death, When It's Love, Etc. -- The Clothes -- Paintings, Poems, Surveys, Songs, and Other Lyric Flights -- Busy -- Song -- Migration Song -- Song: Lore -- Tables -- Survey: The Lingering -- Survey: It's a Small World -- Survey: Unacknowledged Sex -- Survey: Frankenstein under the Front Porch Light -- Survey: An Explanation of the Mechanics of Her Marvelous Invention -- O'Neill -- 1,000 (Exactly) -- The Song of the Lark, Jules Adolphe Breton (1827-1906) --

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