These endlessly inventive contemporary American prose poems work forward from the tradition represented by Russell Edson and Charles Simic with energy and delight.

Egypt from Space (Field Poetry (Numbered))

Literature & Fiction

Goldberg, Beckian Fritz

Poetry

Oberlin College Press

In the Badlands of Desire (Cleveland State University Poetry Series)

Poetry. "The eucalyptus is rowing in the light of the streetlamp, the lake-water writes letters to St. Paul, and all the new gods are ambushing at an old saltlick... if Goldberg's brilliantly anthropomorphized and frightening badlands of desire and the tragic life of our suburbs, then here's a version of our extinction you'd better accept as published by fire on the pages of lament"--Norman Dubie.

In the Badlands of Desire

Cleveland State U Poetry Center

Never Be the Horse (Akron Series on Poetry)

Univ of Akron Pr

Never Be the Horse depicts the world of a postmodern Dark Dorothy whose attempts to return home are foiled when she falls into the Garden of Eden, into the underworld with Walt Whitman, into mysterious versions of her own childhood. The poems evoke this nighttime within the self haunted by mythic and shadow-paradises--of home, homeland, the original garden--where every story is made to hide the others. Here, Adam slips on a piece of Eve's clothing, a child falls in love with the bomb, and a mourner watching the whores chased from the cemetery laments. It is also a world of erotic disguises. Still, it remains recognizably this world. The parent lies to the child about death, and the child lies to the parent about death. In the journey between those lies, as in the journey taken by the horse of the title, language becomes the place of refuge. It is there that one world is always beginning. From willingness . . . speaking its motherese, to the devil's gossamer gibber, the voices in these poems discover that to be human is, as Heidegger said, to be a conversation.

Never be the horse. (Akron Series in Poetry)

University Of Akron Press

Reliquary Fever: New and Selected Poems gathers the work of Beckian Fritz Goldberg, one of her generation’s premiere voices and its fiercest proponent of a free imagination. From the beginning of her career and in all of her six acclaimed volumes, Goldberg’s poetry has rendered labels ― narrative, meditative, lyric, experimental ― irrelevant. It is quickened instead by the body as it experiences itself in an open environment: un-codified, stranded by longing and love and grief, defiantly caring in the midst of our violent cultural moment, at once creaturely and divine, precisely sensory, and somehow pluralized by every harrowing turn. With artfully conversational intensity her new poems extend her vision of an earthly cosmos that resurrects itself daily.

Reliquary Fever: New and Selected Poems (New Issues Poetry & Prose)

New Issues Poetry and Prose

In her latest collection of poems, The Book of Accident, Beckian Fritz Goldberg invites the reader into a shadowy atmosphere where her language prowls among strange images; hummingbirds become a fistful of violet amphetamines and desire gnaws away like a live rat sewed up inside us. Reading The Book of Accident is like entering a graphic novel with missing panels, a noir world of queasy glints and feral adolescents, a world where no one has to love you. Characters go by odd names: Torture Boy, Skin Girl, Lala Petite, Wolf Boy (his body pale as the plucked end of light). They are punk kids fending for themselves in an expressionistic version of those old stories that began, Let's take the children out to the woods / and leave them. And on every page, there's Goldberg's hard-edged wit, with the speed and flash of a video game. These poems show mercy but give no ground. They make you feel heartbroken and frightened and exhilarated at the same time.

Book of Accident (Akron Series in Poetry (Paperback))

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