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Poems
Graywolf Press
May 2009
On Sale: April 28, 2009
176 pages ISBN: 1555975259 EAN: 9781555975258 Paperback
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Fiction Poetry
So often (let’s be honest here) we poets
will invent dreams, for our own strategic purposes.
But this one is real, and one of the few
I remember. I awoke in the future.
—from “Mailbox” To Be Read in 500 Years is the poet Albert Goldbarth’s time
capsule for a future that none of us can now imagine—a world
without mailboxes, without sexual reproduction, without oil
or tillable soil, without the capacity to understand music
or poetry or “love love love love crazy love.” Goldbarth’s
smart and nostalgic collection of poems, spoken from that
future’s distant past, reminds us of everything we have to lose.
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