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A hypothetical future without sexual reproduction, oil, fertile farmland, or even the virtue of love,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: To Be Read in 500 Years: Poems (Paperback)
Written by experienced poet and two-time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award Albert Goldsmith, To Be Read in 500 Years is an anthology of free-verse poetry representing the past of a shocking imaginary future. Offering a glimpse into how this hypothetical future without sexual reproduction, oil, fertile farmland, or even the virtue of love came to be, To Be Read in 500 Years is as much cautionary tale as it is evolving poetic narrative. "How Simile Works": The drizzle-slicked cobblestone alleys / of some city; / and the brickwork back / of the lumbering Galapagos tortoise / they'd set me astride, at the "petting zoo".... // The taste of our squabbles still in my mouth / the next day; / and the brackish puddles sectioning / the street one morning after a storm.... // So poetry configures its comparisons.
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To Be Read in 500 Years: Poems by Albert Goldbarth (Paperback - April 27, 2009)
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