{"product_id":"griffin-by-albert-goldbarth","title":"Goldbarth, Albert: Griffin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGriffin \u003c\/em\u003eby Albert Goldbarth (Essay Press, paperback)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: March 1, 2007\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: Cultural Writing. Essays. For over two decades now, Albert Goldbarth has been cultivating his own hybrid essay variety. A marriage of warmth and intelligence, his essays are narratively driven but poetically lyrical, and openly personal while remaining dedicated to the pleasures of arcane research. \"These are a whole new breed,\" Robert Atwan writes. \"Albert Goldbarth has spliced strands of the old genre with a powerful new gene_ and the results are miraculous.\" In Griffin--that crossbred creature comprised of eagle, lion, and serpent--Albert Goldbarth joins two essays to form one animal. \"Roman Erotic Poetry,\" written on the cusp of a friend's divorce, explores that strangely compound beast we call marriage. \"Wuramon,\" written on the cusp of a friend's struggle with cancer, considers that strangely compound being every one of us is: an amalgam of spirit and physical body. The resulting book is eccentric, learned, and moving.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31337257041943,"sku":"9780979118906","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/griffin.jpg?v=1587618557","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/griffin-by-albert-goldbarth","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}