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Circling The Years, May 9, 2001
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This review is from: Many Circles (Paperback)
This collected essays edition of Goldbarth's work provides new readers with an oppurtunity to read a number of essays from the long out of print A Sympathy of Souls and Great Topics of the World. Perhaps what's most interesting about the collection is that one can see Goldbarth becoming more comfortable with the essay as a form, working out the differences between essays and poems over the course of the early essays (from Souls and Great Topics) before hitting his stride with the title essay. If you've read his last essay collection, Dark Waves and Light Matter, Many Circles will not dissapoint.
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Bad Move, June 7, 2001
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From the publisher that brought us John D'Agata's Halls of Fame comes another collection of experimental essays. Unfortunately this one seems to have been put together quickly in order to rid on the coat-tails of D'Agata's much more original, daring collection. Many Circles in a collection of previously published material that merely recycles a lot of old ticks from a very tired writer. Goldbarth is known for his wonderful, quirky poetry. I'd leave the essay writing to others.
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