Other Worlds

By Albert Goldbarth and The Now Albert Goldbarth

Book Overview

Other Worlds is true to its title, from a look at our everyday joys and griefs as interpreted by the Mars of classic science fiction and the crazy domain of quantum physics; to studies of the many conflicting realities that America uneasily accommodates in a time of pandemic and protests; to elegiac poems informed by the realms of memory, ghosts, and imagined afterlives. From a poem of one line to a sequence of twelve sections, from comic hijinks to despair, and from private revelation to public declaiming, this is a bravura performance by the only poet to have twice received the National Book Critics Circle Award and who, at age seventy-three, is writing at the height of his powers.

Excerpt from "Last Song"

I choose the other way,
with heels dug in.
I vote for screaming

yearningly. For heading into the afterlife
against the grain of this one. For a slowing down
to the pace of a person too absorbed
in the glory and grit
to work up any hurry for departing it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822966697
• ISBN13: 9780822966692
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.0"