The Blue Eye of Earth: Poems

Beckian Fritz Goldberg is the author of seven previous volumes of poetry, including Never Be the Horse, winner of the University of Akron Poetry Prize; Twentieth Century Children, winner of the Indiana Review Chapbook Prize; and Lie Awake Lake, winner of the Field Poetry Prize. 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 and journals, including New American Poets of the '90s, Best American Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Harper's, Gulf Coast, Plume, and others. She currently lives in Oxnard, California, with her two cats.