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Spring 1990 • Vol. XII No. 2 • Nonfiction |

Delft: An Essay-Poem

By Albert Goldbarth

No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though
many there be who have tried it.

               Herman Melville

He cometh unto his kingdom now.

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Albert Goldbarth has been publishing collections of poetry for over four decades, two of which two have received the National Book Critics Circle Award. His latest, Selfish, was published by Graywolf Press in May 2015. He tests his patience by living in Wichita, Kansas.

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