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To Be Read in 500 Years: Poems

By Albert Goldbarth
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By Albert Goldbarth
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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 nost...

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