The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972-2007

Now in paperback, the career-spanning retrospective by Albert Goldbarth, the only poet to have won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry twice Now his, the onlyoverhead turned on. Now nothing else existed:only him, and the book, and the light thrown over his shouldersas luxuriously as a cashmere shawl. ―from "Shawl"Albert Goldbarth has created an unmistakable signature style―learned, copious, hilarious, and heartbreaking. 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. This is the definitive book by one of America's most original and entertaining poets.