About Barbara Goldberg
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rbara Goldberg has authored six prize-winning books of poetry, including The Royal Baker’s Daughter, winner of the Felix Pollak Poetry Prize. Her book Transformation: The Poetry of Translation received the Valentin Krustev Award. Books translated and edited with Israeli poet Moshe Dor include Scorched by the Sun and After the First Rain: Israeli Poems on War and Peace. Her work appears in Best American Poetry, Paris Review, Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, and elsewhere. Goldberg received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as awards in translation, fiction, and speechwriting. She is Series Editor for International Editions at The Word Works and lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Praise for Barbara Goldberg
“Barbara Goldberg’s vivid imagery, her direct and forceful telling, help warn and counsel her readers. One envies her good eye and celebrates the voice that in its ‘hunger for clarity’ speaks.”
—Lucille Clifton
“In this book you will be under the spell of imagination that is truly impressive. You will fall in love with Goldberg’s syntax and line-breaks that create fireworks. Her poems are magical because their music grabs us and won’t let us be. The secret to true music cannot be understood. It can only be applauded.”
—Ilya Kaminsky
“It may be said of Goldberg, as it has been said of Shakespeare, that a dirty mind is a perennial resource.”
—Howard Nemerov
“These new, thoughtfully lived, and exquisitely shaped and translated poems are a deep, indelible tonic to the soul.”
—Naomi Shihab Nye
“I particularly admire in Barbara Goldberg the inventiveness of her mind and the brilliant assurance of her craft.”
—Stanley Kunitz
“Barbara Goldberg shows us how we sometimes choose to devour—over and over again, often relishing their texture—those very wounds that have made us who we are and what we have come to believe.”
—David St. John
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