From Loose Dog Press—my little publishing enterprise that includes the Cold Hard Type series and Lucas Dul's The Williams Typewriter—comes a delightful collection by award-winning, typewriter-wielding poet Albert Goldbarth.
Cover painting by Skyler Lovelace
This volume gathers Goldbarth’s musings on the charms of the obsolescent and the perils of the new. Witty, insightful, and moving, Ludd Light offers a wide selection of poems, an essay, and a story that get us thinking about the gains and losses that come with change.
Author photo by Michael Pointer
Albert Goldbarth has been publishing poetry for over half a century. He has received the National Book Critics Circle Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and awards from the Poetry Foundation. Avoiding all computers, he writes by typewriter and uses postal mail.Ludd Light is yours for only $10. It makes for thought-provoking reading and is an excellent gift for anyone who enjoys typewriters and has a healthy skepticism about our current world. Order here.
I love Albert Goldbarth and highly recommend his collection "The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972-2007." To those who feel underqualified to read poetry: I confess to being a naïve and impatient reader of poetry myself, so don't take my word for it — find whatever work of his that you can (as I did, browsing the shelves at my favorite bookstore) and see if it connects with you.
ReplyDeleteOne of the other books I found was a collection of letters between modern American poets, in which Goldbarth figured notably. He's the real thing and has been in communion with some of the most respected (and well known) names in American letters. This publication is a real feather in the cap of Loose Dog Press, and I'm excited to order.
(This comment was mine. I hadn't intended to publish anonymously.)
DeleteThanks, John! I agree that Albert Goldbarth's poetry is accessible to a wide audience, without ever being clichéd or unintelligent. His poems are like trains of thought that might occur to me in response to some random event—if I could express myself with great freshness and leaps of wit.
DeleteI met Albert at the Miami Book Fair in 2015. I was there to promote The Typewriter Revolution, and he and Sven Birkerts were speaking on undigitized life. Albert and I have kept in touch by letters. When he proposed that Loose Dog Press could publish this collection, I was delighted. The poems and an essay have appeared in a variety of Albert's previous books over the years. He wrote a new story for Ludd Light, with a typewriter theme.