Saving Lives

Albert Goldbarth (born January 31, 1948, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American poet renowned for his erudite, witty, and prolific body of work spanning over 25 poetry collections, essays, and a novel. He is the only poet to win the National Book Critics Circle Award twice, for Saving Lives (2001) and Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology (1991), with additional honors including Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, the Mark Twain Award for Humorous Poetry (2008), and serving as Adele Davis Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Wichita State University until 2018.