Selfish: Poems

"If Goldbarth belongs to a school, he is surely its sole member. He's simply . . . one of our most generous working poets." —Rumpus

And you

perhaps don't like this poem: its free verse or its narrative or the way it uses gender or the heavy-handed word-play of its title.

Like I care.

I wrote this for me.

—from "‘Try the Selfish'"

In his latest collection, the incomparable Albert Goldbarth explores all things "self-ish": the origins of identity, the search for ancestry, the neurology of self-awar...