Manyebook

Everyday People

The not-at-all-everyday new poetry collection by Albert Goldbarth, twice winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award

I brought a book of many words

to an emptiness in my heart,

and I shook them out in there, to fill it.

In my time I wrote this very thing.

In your time you read it.

— from "What We Were Like"

Virtuoso poet Albert Goldbarth returns with a new collection that describes the wonders of everyday people — overprotective parents, online gamblers, newlyweds, Hercules, and Jesus. In Goldbarth's poetry — expansive, wild, and hilarious — he 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 "in 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).

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 187
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781555976033
  • Genres
  • poetry
  • Release date
  • 2012