Alive at the End of the World
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Alive at the End of the World

  1. 104 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Alive at the End of the World

About this book

Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author of Prelude to Bruise and How We Fight for Our Lives confronts our everyday apocalypses. In haunted poems glinting with laughter, Saeed Jones explores the public and private betrayals of life as we know it. With verve, wit, and elegant craft, Jones strips away American artifice in order to reveal the intimate grief of a mourning son and the collective grief bearing down on all of us.Drawing from memoir, fiction, and persona, Jones confronts the everyday perils of white supremacy with a finely tuned poetic ear, identifying moments that seem routine even as they open chasms of hurt. Viewing himself as an unreliable narrator, Jones looks outward to understand what's within, bringing forth cultural icons like Little Richard, Paul Mooney, Aretha Franklin and Diahann Carroll to illuminate how long and how perilously we've been living on top of fault lines. As these poems seek ways to love and survive through America's existential threats, Jones ushers his readers toward the realization that the end of the world is already here—and the apocalypse is a state of being.

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Information

Publisher
Coffee House Press
Year
2022
eBook ISBN
9781566896528
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
American Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Foreword by D. A. Powell
  6. Alive at the End of the World
  7. Alive at the End of the World
  8. A Memory
  9. That’s Not Snow, It’s Ash
  10. If You Had an Off Button, I’d Name You “Off”
  11. A Song for the Status Quo
  12. All I Gotta Do Is Stay Black and Die
  13. It’s 1975 and Paul Mooney Says “Nigger” a Hundred Times
  14. Deleted Voice Message: Hey, Robyn—It’s Me, Whitney
  15. Grief #213
  16. Saeed, or The Other One: I
  17. Alive at the End of the World
  18. Saeed, How Dare You Make Your Mother into a Prelude
  19. Saeed Wonders If the Poem You Just Read Would’ve Been Better Served by a Different Title
  20. Heritage
  21. After the School Board Meeting
  22. Black Ice
  23. The Trial
  24. Gravity
  25. Aretha Franklin Hears an Echo While Singing “Save Me”
  26. Diahann Carroll Takes a Bath at the Beverly Hills Hotel
  27. Grief #913
  28. Saeed, or the Other One: II
  29. Alive at the End of the World
  30. “Sorry as in Pathetic”
  31. A Stranger
  32. Okay, One More Story
  33. Okay, One More Story
  34. Date Night
  35. The Essential American Worker
  36. Against Progeny
  37. A Difficult Love Song for Luther Vandross
  38. Little Richard Listens to Pat Boone Sing “Tutti Frutti”
  39. Grief #346
  40. Saeed, or The Other One: III
  41. Alive at the End of the World
  42. Extinction
  43. Everything Is Dying, Nothing Is Dead
  44. A Spell to Banish Grief
  45. The Dead Dozens
  46. After Watching a Video of Cicely Tyson Singing a Hymn, I Realize I Wasn’t a Good Grandson
  47. Performing as Miss Calypso, Maya Angelou Dances Whenever She Forgets the Lyrics, which Billie Holiday, Seated in the Audience, Finds Annoying
  48. At 84 Years Old, Toni Morrison Wonders If She’s Depressed
  49. All I Gotta Do Is Stay Black and Die (Apocalyptic Remix)
  50. Grief #1
  51. Saeed, or The Other One: IV
  52. Notes at the End of the World
  53. Acknowledgments
  54. Funder Acknowledgments
  55. The Publisher’s Circle of Coffee House Press
  56. About the Author