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Albert Goldbarth (Cyclopedia of World Authors)

Albert Goldbarth was one of the most celebrated, prolific, and widely anthologized American poets of the late twentieth century, prompting biographer David Starkey to observe that Goldbarth “has produced in less than twenty years a body of work that has had an undeniable impact on contemporary American poetry.” Goldbarth grew up in a middle-class Jewish household in Chicago, the son of insurance underwriter Irving Goldbarth and his wife, Fannie Goldbarth (née Seligman), who worked as a secretary. Albert received a B.A. from the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle campus, in 1969...

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