Everyday People: Poems

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 ).