Playlist for the Apocalypse
Poems
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Word Count
36,000 words, Guess
Page Count
144 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- ISBN-100393867773
- ISBN-139780393867770
- Library of Congress Control Number2021011714
- OCLC Control Number1196173576
- Better World Books9780393867770
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL30753201M
Classifications
- LCCPS3554.O884P58 2021
- LCCPS3554.O884 P58 2021
Description
"A piercing, unflinching new volume offers necessary music for our tumultuous present, from "perhaps the best public poet we have" (Boston Globe). In her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding America's, and 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 an elevator operator, an octogenarian's exuberant mambo, the mordant humor of a philosophizing 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"--
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