Bibliograph

Playlist for the Apocalypse, poems, Rita Dove

Type

Label

Playlist for the Apocalypse, poems, Rita Dove

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Playlist for the Apocalypse

Oclc number

1196173576

Responsibility statement

Rita Dove

Sub title

poems

Summary

"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"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Time's arrow -- After Egypt -- Spring Cricket -- A standing witness -- Eight angry odes -- Little book of woe

Target audience

adult

Classification