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IF THIS SHOULD REACH YOU IN TIME sounds the alarm of climate change and democratic collapse with tender lament and guarded hope from award-winning poet Justin Marks.

"There's no way around / not being part / of the problem" Marks writes in "Along for the Ride," "The best case scenario / is long term disaster".

In his fourth collection of poetry, Marks renders global threats as intimate and personal. As we turn inward, terror and sadness take hold. This is a book of crisis and dread, both human and spiritual.

Through these poems, we see what could be and what might have been. In the titular poem, Marks writes "...know / that we didn't see / the disaster coming / That it wasn't / imaginable, hadn't / existed until, gradually / it was, and did / Or that we saw it / and refused to believe / Or saw it and thought / something or someone / else would save us."

Justin Marks's books are If This Should Reach You in Time (Barrelhouse Books, 2022), The Comedown (Publishing Genius Press, 2021), You're Going to Miss Me When You're Bored (Barrelhouse Books, 2014), and A Million in Prizes (New Issues, 2009). He is a cofounder of Birds, LLC, an independent poetry press, and lives in New York City with his family.