Alive at the End of the World
Book description
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.…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Alive at the End of the World as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The best writers help reimagine what a book can be, and for me, Saeed Jones did just that with this book.
It’s billed as a poetry collection, but page after page, he pushes the boundaries of what a poem can say, how it can fill the page, and the shape it can take. There are free verse poems, prose poems, and poems as essays. There are straightforward experiences and more abstract retellings. There’s grief, identity, Blackness, and queerness woven throughout.
This book is so many wonderful things. In my view, this is a vital document of Black, queer, creative living.
From Jefferey's list on capturing the complexity of the queer experience.
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