Albert Goldbarth is the Adele B. Davis Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Wichita State University. He received a master’s degree in fine arts from Iowa. Goldbarth is the author of over twenty collections of poetry and three collections of essays. Goldbarth’s poetry has received a Guggenheim fellowship and three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.
My father’s been dead for thirty years but when he appears behind my shoulder offering advice, or condemnation, or a quiet pride in something I’ve done that isn’t even thistledown or tiny shavings of balsa wood in the eyes of the world —“Albie, grip in the middle and...
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The power of art to reveal the dominant consciousness and challenge it.
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