The Blue Eye of Earth - University of Pittsburgh Press

In her first collection in a decade, Beckian Fritz Goldberg returns with The Blue Eye of Earth, her tour de force of luminous, meditative poems that measure a secret distance between person and cosmos, memory and desire, beauty and grief. Whether standing at her neighbor’s fence of desert oleander, or birdwatching with her mother, or flipping through late-night TV, or going out to watch the moon again, Fritz Goldberg never fails to attend the romance of a world we are sure to lose. This is a lyricist unafraid of the ordinary predicament of the night sky, a place where historical figures, scientific inquiry, and encounters with strangers are imagined with intimacy and music, and where the orphic questions are answered by a glance back. Through precise imagery and philosophical reach, these poems pursue what it means to inhabit a mortal body on a threatened planet while still finding moments of wonder, connection, and astonishment. In The Blue Eye of Earth, Beckian Fritz Goldberg offers her sublime, compassionate hymnal to the enduring mysteries of love, consciousness, and mortal time.

80 Pages, 6 x 9 in.

September, 2026

isbn : 9780822968382

Series

Pitt Poetry Series

Subjects

Poetry / General

about the author

Beckian Fritz Goldberg grew up in Arizona and received her M.F.A. from Vermont College. She is the author of seven previous volumes of poetry, Body Betrayer, In the Badlands of Desire, Never Be the Horse, winner of the University of Akron Poetry Prize, Twentieth Century Children, a limited edition chapbook, winner of the Indiana Review chapbook prize, Lie Awake Lake, winner of the Field Poetry Prize , The Book of Accident, Reliquary Fever: New and Selected Poems, and Egypt From Space. Goldberg has been awarded the Theodore Roethke Poetry Prize from Poetry Northwest, The Gettysburg Review Annual Poetry Prize, two Arizona Commission on the Arts Poetry Fellowships and two Pushcart Prizes. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies such as New American Poets of the 90’s, Best American Poetry 1995, Best American Poetry, and in journals, including The American Poetry Review, Field, The Gettysburg Review, Harper’s, Gulf Coast, Plume and others. She currently lives in Oxnard, California, with her two cats.

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