Goldbarths’s exciting new collection ranges from sonnet-sized meditations to extended narratives; from myth-laden journeys through a “river-tangled pocket of Peru” to the celebrated Goldbarthian territory of pop-cultural autobiography. The centerpiece of Beyond is “The Two Domains,” an award-winning, prose- and verse-tale that hurtles over boundaries between poetry and fiction, reality and fantasy. Though various and far-reaching in their concerns, all of the poems in this brilliant volume contribute toward an ambitious exploration of what is “beyond”—the incorporeal, the paranormal, and life lived over the knowable edge.
There is simply no poet like him.
—Kenyon Review