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About Albert Goldbarth

Albert Goldbarth is Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the department of English at Wichita State University. He is the author of over twenty collections of poetry, including The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems: 1972?2007 (Graywolf Press, 2007).

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Not Sumerian

Albert Goldbarth

They tried to stop her dying. The son with the money
tried—he shoveled it by the trainload
into her lungs. The daughter made herself
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