Ari Banias is the author of the forthcoming A Symmetry (W. W. Norton, 2021), and Anybody (W. W. Norton, 2016). His recent work appears in bæst, The Nation, and in We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat, 2020). He lives in Oakland.
Goldbarth still infuses his poems with an old-fashioned, childlike wonder at the marvels of our world, along with a bemused chuckle at the ways in which we so obviously fall…