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Now in paperback, the career-spanning retrospective by Albert Goldbarth, the only poet to have won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry twice Now his, the onlyoverhead turned on. Now nothing else existed: only him, and the book, and the light thrown over his shouldersas luxuriously as a cashmere shawl. from "Shawl"Albert Goldbarth has created an unmistakable signature style learned, copious, hilarious, and heartbreaking. "The Kitchen Sink" brings together forty new poems with a rich selection of earlier poetry, ranging from the brief, flickering lyric to the long, narrative sequence. This is the definitive book by one of America's most original and entertaining poets.