<DIV><DIV><B>Now in paperback, the career-spanning retrospective by Albert Goldbarth, the only poet to have won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry twice</B><BR><BR><DIV>                         Now his, the only<BR>overhead turned on. Now nothing else existed:<BR>only him, and the book, and the light thrown over his shoulders<BR>as luxuriously as a cashmere shawl.<BR>                                              —from “Shawl”<BR><BR>Albert Goldbarth has created an unmistakable signature style—learned, copious, hilarious, and heartbreaking. <I>The Kitchen Sink</I> brings together forty new poems with a rich selection of earlier poetry, ranging from the brief, flickering lyric to the long, narrative sequence. This is the definitive book by one of America's most original and entertaining poets.</DIV><BR><BR></DIV></DIV>