Barry Goldensohn

Books

Visitors Entrance
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 5,780. Language: English. Published: December 9, 2020 by Fomite. Categories: Poetry » American poetry » General
I am constantly amazed by the elegance and surprising disturbance in language and syntax that thrills me in Goldensohn’s work, like Melville’s “happy toothache”—there are live roots in these lovely, sometimes painful moments, which almost violently win my attention. — Norman Dubie, author of The Quotations of Bone, winner of the 2016 Griffin International Poetry Prize
Snake In The Spine, Wolf In The Heart
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 9,810. Language: English. Published: March 27, 2020 by Fomite. Categories: Poetry » American poetry » General
This is a book of political poems. It deals with distortions of consciousness and feeling in response to our past hundred years and more of war, horror, our history and nightmares, confusion and occasional visions of peace, inner and outer.
The Hundred Yard Dash Man
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 25,830. Language: English. Published: March 25, 2020 by Fomite. Categories: Poetry » American poetry » General
In dedicating this volume of poetry to his father, who was a championship runner in his time, Goldensohn compares the lyric poem to the hundred yard dash. Fans of Goldensohn’s work will find poems chosen from previous published works, including St. Venus Eve, Uncarving the Block, The Marrano, Dance Music and East Long Pond, as well as a generous portion of new work.
The Listener Aspires to the Condition of Music
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 5,360. Language: English. Published: May 28, 2019 by Fomite. Categories: Poetry » American poetry » General, Poetry » Contemporary Poetry
"These music poems quietly accumulate our desperate need for art." Paul Nelson, poet, former Director of Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Ohio University