{"id":338,"date":"2021-12-08T22:01:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T03:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/?page_id=338"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:56:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:56:16","slug":"galactic-milk","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/poetry\/galactic-milk\/","title":{"rendered":"Galactic Milk: the Five Questions of Mortality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-normal-font-size\">FREDERICK FARRYL GOODWIN<br><br>2013. 978-1-881163-53-4<br>$15.00 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Galactic-Milk-Five-Questions-Mortality\/dp\/1881163539\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pathwaybookservice.com\/products\/galactic-milk-1\">Pathway<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><em>Galactic Milk: the Five Questions of Mortality&nbsp;<\/em>is the second collection of poems by American poet and former hardcore vocalist Frederick Farryl Goodwin, &#8220;whose debut begins with Ophelia, ends with Horace, and is populated in between with a cast ranging from Merlin to Robert Mitchum to the Buddha&#8221; (Boston Review). Here, characters are re-cast in a &#8220;strange mix of Grand Guignol and lyricism, a potent brew of fractured pastoral and seedy cityscapes, fragile confessionalism and Shakespearean film noir &#8230; The workings of some Spicerian angel &#8230; teetering on the brink of some ghastly void&#8221; (Signal to Noise Magazine). Once again, tradition fuses with machines of recombinatory energy to present a linguistically hybridized world of possibility for a high lyric of compression and genre-bending extension. Says John Latta, in his review of&nbsp;<em>Virgil&#8217;s Cow<\/em>: &#8220;Some astoundingly different register to the way of seeing.&#8221;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-normal-font-size\">Reviews &amp; Such<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.masspoetry.org\/newbookgoodwin\">Mass Poetry<\/a>&nbsp;interviewed Goodwin in December 2014.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle&#8217;s interview with Frederick Farryl Goodwin posted to the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.montevidayo.com\/tales-from-the-crypt-cruickshank-hagenbuckle-interviews-frederick-farryl-goodwin\/\">Montevidayo<\/a>&nbsp;blog on March 27, 2014.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Frederick Farryl Goodwin is the new star in American poetry and I&#8217;m his fan.\u2014<strong>Toma\u017e \u0160alamun<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In the night I drink from Frederick Farryl Goodwin&#8217;s eternal&nbsp;<em>Galactic Milk<\/em>, joined by the whispering stars. The book has a healing effect like that of Achilles&#8217; spear: it healed the mortal wounds that no other medicine could possibly heal. But, at the same time, so exciting and detoxifying and purifying from the mud and quicksand of everyday life! \u2014<strong>Ferid Muhi\u0107<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This book is deep and wrenching\u2014a searing journey.\u2014<strong>Kathleen Spivak<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Goodwin as Basquiat. Poem as a canister throwing off uncontainable sparks. Goodwin is capable, too, of nearly unbearable restraint, a methodical discernment of shivery particulars&#8230; Belated death of a literalist. Read it.<br>\u2014<strong>John Latta<\/strong><em> (on&nbsp;<\/em>Virgil&#8217;s Cow<em>)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-normal-font-size\"><br>About the Author<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Frederick Farryl Goodwin was born in 1953 in Framingham, Massachusetts, and matriculated at Brown University at age 27, after an adolescence of blunt trauma. (He became mute at the age of 16, following the suicide of his mother, and spent three years hospitalized at McLean Hospital in Belmont.) Following a string of odd jobs, he became the vocalist for the hardcore band Black Hole, and then moved to the U.K., graduating with an M.A. from Clare College, Cambridge. He has worked in the U.S. and abroad as a theatre director, furniture salesman, debt collector, performance poet, farm hand, house painter, and lumber truck driver. He is the author of two collections of poetry published by Miami University Press:&nbsp;<em>Virgil&#8217;s Cow&nbsp;<\/em>(2009) and&nbsp;<em>Galactic Milk: the Five Questions of Mortality<\/em>&nbsp;(2013).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"802\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2021\/12\/goodwin_galacticmilk.jpg\" alt=\"Galactic Milk\" class=\"wp-image-209\" style=\"width:450px;height:602px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2021\/12\/goodwin_galacticmilk.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2021\/12\/goodwin_galacticmilk-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"724\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2021\/12\/Goodwin.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-339\" style=\"width:450px;height:543px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2021\/12\/Goodwin.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2021\/12\/Goodwin-249x300.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FREDERICK FARRYL GOODWIN 2013. 978-1-881163-53-4$15.00 Amazon | Pathway Galactic Milk: the Five Questions of Mortality&nbsp;is the second collection of poems by American poet and former hardcore vocalist Frederick Farryl Goodwin, &#8220;whose debut begins with Ophelia, ends with Horace, and is populated in between with a cast ranging from Merlin to Robert Mitchum to the Buddha&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":995,"featured_media":0,"parent":25,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-338","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/995"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/338\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}