[New-Poetry] Albert's house

[Anny Ballardini]

Yes, the one with the Library that I liked so much, the only thing I wished today was to see his house.

This book saved my life.
This book takes place on one of the two small tagalong moons of Mars.
This book requests its author's absolution, centuries after his death.
This book required two of the sultan's largest royal elephants to bear it;
    this other book fit in a gourd.
This book reveals The Secret Name of God, and so its author is on a death
    list.
This is the book I lifted high over my head, intending to smash a roach in
    my girlfriend's bedroom; instead, my back unsprung, and I toppled
    painfully into her bed, where I stayed motionless for eight days.
This is a "book." That is, an audio cassette. This other "book" is a screen
    and a microchip. This other "book," the sky.
...

  From: David Graham 
  Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 3:34 AM


  Admit it:  you've always wanted to look at photos of Albert Goldbarth's house.


  http://poetryfoundation.org/features/feature.onpoets.html?id=179326


  It is, of course, utterly unsurprising to learn that Goldbarth has an enormous collection of "1950s outer space stuffs, toy spaceships and robots . . . ."  I mean, that practically goes without saying.





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