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July/Aug 2015 • Vol. XXXVII No. 4 • Poetry |

She Dies and Is Buried and Her People

By Albert Goldbarth

nomads, by definition
move on.

And yet.

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Albert Goldbarth has been publishing collections of poetry for over four decades, two of which two have received the National Book Critics Circle Award. His latest, Selfish, was published by Graywolf Press in May 2015. He tests his patience by living in Wichita, Kansas.

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Wrist Beep

By Albert Goldbarth

Once there weren’t even cell phones,hard though it is for a twenty-somethingto credit that—but I remember those days, and we communicated fine. Now, of course, there are phone/computer/location chips the […]

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