Playlist for the Apocalypse
Poems
Format:Paperback
Publisher:WW Norton & Co
Published:28th Apr '23
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In her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding the world’s experiments in democracy.
Whether depicting the first Jewish ghetto in sixteenth-century Venice or Black Lives Matter, this extraordinary poet never fails to connect history’s grand exploits to the triumphs and tragedies of individual lives—the simmering resentment of a lift operator, an octogenarian’s exuberant mambo, the mordant humour of a philosophising cricket.
Audaciously playful yet grave, alternating poignant meditations on mortality and acerbic observations of injustice, Playlist for the Apocalypse takes us from the smallest moments of redemption to apocalyptic failures of the human soul.
"These poems witness and celebrate the grandeur and tragedy contained in a single life, a single moment, a single word." -- Cornelia Channing - New York Magazine
"Playlist for the Apocalypse, Rita Dove’s new book of poems, is among her best… You sense the books of many poets of Dove’s generation slipping to the back of the bookcase. Not hers." -- Dwight Garner - The New York Times Book Review
"Plenty of poems here address disability, history and quotidian human behavior, but racism and economic oppression are the former poet laureate’s primary concerns in this book, her first in 12 years. With Dove’s characteristically affable voice, the book tries to understand saving graces and the things they save us from." -- 100 Notable Books of 2021 - The New York Times
ISBN: 9781324050438
Dimensions: 211mm x 157mm x 10mm
Weight: 136g
128 pages