“Goldbarth marries emotions, thoughts, and events we never thought to see in proximity to one another; through his genius we rediscover the world's history and our own. No one else now is writing what Albert Goldbarth gives us because no one else can.”
NEW WORK FROM ONE OF AMERICA’S MOST PROLIFIC POETS The only poet to have twice won the National Book
Critics Circle Award
To Be Read in 500 Years is 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.
Praise for Albert Goldbarth:
"Albert Goldbarth may just be the American poet of his generation for the ages. Often humorous but always serious, Goldbarth combines erudite research, pop-culture fanaticism, and person anecdote in ways that make his writings among the most stylistically recognizable in the literary world."
—JUDITH KITCHEN, THE GEORGIA REVIEW
"In thirty-five years of writing, Albert Goldbarth has amassed a body of work as substantial and intelligent as that of anyone in his generation."
