91亚色 English Professor David Goldstein will celebrate the launch of his newest poetry collection, Lost Originals (BookThug), with an event on Nov. 15 from 7 to 9pm at Holy Oak Caf茅, 1241 Bloor St. W.
David Goldstein
Starting from the notion that every act of speaking is a translation between worlds, writer, scholar and critic Goldstein鈥檚 Lost Originals comprises a collection of elegies for a series of 鈥渓ost originals鈥 鈥 objects, images and experiences whose ghostly traces can only be evoked through language.
The book鈥檚 encounters with a menagerie of items 鈥 from porcelain figurines, maps and soundscapes to computer-generated email spam and journalism about sharks 鈥 yield a myriad of voices, giving metaphorical speech to the unspeaking or unspoken, and at the same time uncovering a surprising beauty in language normally viewed as impenetrable or utilitarian.
The collection is for lovers of allusive and layered poetics, Flarfist experimentation and language that communes with art, and for those interested in how we encounter objects and how they encounter us.
Goldstein also co-edited two scholarly essay collections published this year, including Culinary Shakespeare: Staging Food and Drink in Early Modern England (Duquesne University Press) with Amy Tigner, and (Routledge) with Julia Reinhard Lupton.
Goldstein is the author of a previous poetry collection, Laws of Rest (BookThug, 2013), a book of criticism, Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare鈥檚 England (Cambridge, 2013) and two chapbooks, the most recent of which is Object Permanence (Ugly Duckling, 2015).
He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including the Shakespeare鈥檚 Globe Book Award.