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Dark Waves and Light Matter

Dark Waves and Light Matter

Goldbarth, Albert

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ISBN10: 0820321265
ISBN13: 9780820321264
Publisher: Univ Of Georgia Pr
Published: Aug 1 1999
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.86 Width: 5.79 Depth: 8.76
Language: English

Albert Goldbarth's personal essays are known for their marriage of poetically rich language with research into intriguingly arcane corners of our culture. Goldbarth is a master mixer, says the Village Voice, and the New York Times Book Review calls his prose an artful joining of disparate entities into something new that illuminates as it entertains.

Dark Waves and Light Matter is an energetic, eclectic gathering of Goldbarth's recent essays. They are part meditations and part short stories, part scholarship and part downright sassiness. A paean to 1950s comic book villains leads, through a visit with Charles Dickens, to a contemplation on the unity of the first day of Creation. Agatha Christie, Timothy Leary, and Pieter Brueghel all contribute equally to a consideration of how the unity of our lives is perforated by tiny moments of disjunction. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Wizard of Oz, and the National Enquirer unlock a study of patricide and UFOlogy.

These essays look squarely at large, tough, all-encompassing ideas, but they don't ignore the small specifics that multiply into a day, for example, one lone orchid pressed into an album; its oils have long past stained the paper around it translucent, a wimple of spectral sheen.

Annie Dillard has said that Goldbarth's prose is lively, brilliant, vivid, witty, and informed, and Dark Waves and Light Matter triumphantly confirms this assessment.

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