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THE 2008 BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY MILT KESSLER POETRY BOOK AWARD

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Albert Goldbarth for The Kitchen Sink: New & Selected Poems: 1972 - 2007
from Graywolf Press


Judge: Denise Duhamel

"Albert Goldbarth's The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems: 1972-2007 is a big fat/phat joy --to hold in one's hands, to open like a poetry-I-ching --assured that each and every poem will please. Constantly inventive, consistently skillful,and proudly prolific, Goldbarth weaves pop culture, science, and history,never ceasing to amaze. This "new and selected" reaffirms his electric eccentricity."

Denise Duhamel is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Two and Two, winner of last year's Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award. Duhamel's other books currently in print are Mille et un sentiments, Queen for a Day, The Star-Spangled Banner, winner of the Crab Orchard Poetry Prize; Kinky; Girl Soldier; and How the Sky Fell. She teaches at Florida International University and lives in Hollywood, FL, with her husband, the poet Nick Carbó.

Kessler Award Finalists for 2008:

(in alphabetical order)

Edward Field for After the Fall (University of Pittsburgh Press)

David Kirby for The House on Boulevard Street: New & Selected Poems (LSU Press)

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