Description: "Goldbarth's wackily polymathic exuberance now confronts his scariest foes yet: human separateness, divorce, the parts of the psyche that split couples up. . . . (Fans of brainy novelists like Richard Powers or David Foster Wallace might love Goldbarth even if they don't read much poetry.) Goldbarth (who snagged the National Book Critics Circle Award for 1991's Heaven and Earth ) wants to use his mountains of facts, his piles of odd words, to unearth old virtues: his drive toward redemption, pathos and comedy tugs heroically against the drag of his largely sad material. It's hard to read these poems without hoping for, even rooting for, the poet's own marriage. They bear a frightened sadness, and a depth, new to Goldbarth's work: they're also as energetic and winning as ever." -- Publisher's Weekly

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