Albert Goldbarth

Albert Goldbarth (born January 31, 1948, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) is an American poet whose erudition and wit found expression in compulsively wordy but dazzling compositions. Educated at the University of Illinois at Chicago (B.A., 1969), the University of Iowa (M.F.A., 1971), and the University of Utah (graduate study, 1973–74), Goldbarth taught at several schools, notably the University of Texas at Austin and Wichita (Kansas) State University. In his early career, Goldbarth sometimes published more than...