Everyday People: Poems

The not-at-all-everyday new poetry collection by Albert Goldbarth, twice winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award

I brought a book of many words

to an emptiness in my heart,

and I shook them out in there, to fill it.

In my time I wrote this very thing.

In your time you read it.

—from "What We Were Like"

Virtuoso poet Albert Goldbarth returns with a new collection that describes the wonders of everyday people—overprotective parents, online gamblers, newlyweds, Hercules, and Jesus. I...