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About Alive At The End Of The World
Product 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. 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. Review Praise for Alive at the End of the World“The potent latest from Jones excoriates an American present that refuses to learn from its past or correct for a possibly disastrous future. A kaleidoscope of grief and anger mixes with the poet’s wit, giving these timely poems a striking directness. . . . Balancing elegy with gallows humor, this penetrating collection shows Jones at his poetic best.” ―Publishers Weekly, starred review“Jones’s latest is yet another masterly work, though sung in a distinctly different tenor. . . . [His] most free-flowing work yet, a centripetal collection where rage and pain and weariness swirl and coalesce with stunning emotional and conceptual clarity, yet so intimate it feels bled from the author’s very veins.” ―Library Journal, starred review“Jones unravels and reconfigures language like he’s untying a knot, then rethreads the strands in a delicate new construction. . . . Jones writes in the space between wreckage and resilience. He offers a calibrated reckoning with his own grief, cradled in ambiguity―and we wait, holding our breath, to see what is tendered next.” ―Erin Overbey, The New Yorker“A serious argument for community and the rebellion of joy. I love [“Alive at the End of the World”] for how it shows us the importance of defending our right to pleasure.” ―United States Poet Laureate Ada Limón, NPR’s The Slowdown“A powerful poetry collection about the public and private betrayals of life as we know it. Jones digs deep into personal and collective histories of grief to confront the perils of white supremacy and the cracked ideological foundation that the United States sits on.” ―Chicago Review of Books“Jones reaffirms his place as one of the most talented living poets writing in English with this collection, demonstrating an ever-evolving mastery of language and a distinct eye for structural balance. . . . Alive at the End of the World is filled with poems that will stop readers in their tracks. Jones puts his signature wit and humor on full display, as well as his brilliant economy of language. . . . A tour de force.” ―Ronnie K. Stephens, The Poetry Question“Swims in the ocean of personal and collective grief brought on by many small and large apocalypses. [Jones’s] glimmering words bring wit and ferocity to the page.” ―Sarah Neilson, Shondaland“A vital and commanding sophomore poetry collection from one of America's most engaging poets. Essential reading.” ―Danny Caine, Raven Book StorePraise for How We Fight for Our Lives: Winner of the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Winner of the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir/Biography Winner of the 2020 Stonewall Book Award–Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award Winner of the 2020 Randy Shilts Award for Gay NonfictionOne of the best books of the year a
