Professor Emeritus
lgoldste@umich.eduOffice Information:
4185 Angell Hall
hours: MW 9-10 & 11:30-12; TH 2-4
Academics; Emeriti; Modernism; Nineteenth Century British; English; Twentieth Century American; American; Poetry and Poetics; British
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., Brown 1970
Highlighted Work and Publications
A Room in California
Laurence Goldstein
Southern California is one of two significant places in Laurence Goldstein's fourth collection of poems. A native of Los Angeles, the author re-encounters the vivid ghosts of an exotic personal landscape: Criswell the TV prophet, Madame Nhu at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Mickey Cohen in a downtown deli, Bob Hope in a photo shoot with the poet's family. From the Pacific boardwalk to Death Valley, these poems enliven their borderlands with pungent language and dramatic incident. Goldstein then takes the reader to Ethiopia, the setting of a long dramatic monologue narrated by a young American woman... See More
Poetry Los Angeles: Reading the Essential Poems of the City
Laurence Goldstein
Is there such a thing as Los Angeles poetry? How do we assess a poem about a city as elusive of identity as Los Angeles? What features do poems about this unique urban landscape of diverse peoples and terrains have in common? Poetry Los Angeles
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Writing Ann Arbor: A Literary Anthology
Laurence Goldstein
Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan have always been natural settings for the writing life, offering perennial inspiration to the many artists, poets, locals, and students who have called the city and the classroom home. Writing Ann Arbor collects fiction, essay, poetry, memoir, and drama by Max Apple, Charles Baxter, Sven Birkerts, Donald Hall, Robert Hayden, Tom Hayden, Jane Kenyon, Thomas Lynch, Ross Macdonald, Frank O'Hara, Marge Piercy, Dudley Randall, Ruth Reichl, Elwood Reid, Bob Ufer, Wendy Wasserstein, and Nancy Willard, among many others.The anthology is eclectic and engaging... See More
