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Also by Albert Goldbarth:

To Be Read in 500 Years, May 2009
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TO BE READ IN 500 YEARS
By: Albert Goldbarth

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.

Media Buzz

NewsHour with Jim Lehrer - October 1, 2009
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