| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
114 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Time's arrow -- After Egypt -- Spring cricket -- A standing witness -- Eight angry odes -- Little book of woe. |
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Prose in a small space -- Time's arrow : Bellringer ; Lucille, post-operative years ; Family reunion ; Girls on the town, 1946 ; Eurydice, Turning ; Scarf ; From the sidelines ; Mirror ; Found sonnet: the wig ; Trans- ; Climacteric ; Island ; Vacation ; A wing -- After Egypt : Little town ; Foundry ; Sarra's answer ; Sarra's blues ; Aubade: the constitutional ; Sketch for Tere̕zn ; Orders of the day ; Transit ; Declaration of interdependence ; Elevator man, 1949 ; Youth Sunday ; Aubade East ; Trayvon, redux ; Aubade West ; Naji, 14. Philadelphia. ; Ghettoland: exeunt -- Spring cricket : The spring cricket considers the question of negritude ; The spring cricket repudiates his parable of negritude ; The spring cricket's grievance: little outburst ; The spring cricket observes Valentine's day ; The spring cricket's discourse on critics ; Hip hop cricket ; Postlude -- A standing witness : Beside the golden door ; Your tired, your poor ; Bridged air ; Giant ; Huddle ; Woman, aflame ; Mother of exiles ; Wretched ; Limbs astride, land to land ; World-wide welcome ; Imprisoned lightning ; Send these to me ; Keep your storied pomp ; The sunset gates -- Eight Angry Odes : The angry odes: an introduction ; Pedestrian crossing, Charlottesville ; Ode on a shopping list found in last season's shorts ; Insomnia Etiquette ; Ode to my right knee ; Anniversary ; Shakespeare doesn't care ; A sonnet for the sonnet -- Little book of woe : Soup ; Pearl on Wednesday ; The terror and the pity ; No color ; Blues, straight ; Borderline mambo ; Voiceover ; Rosary ; Green Koan ; Last words ; This is the poem I did not write ; Rive d'Urale ; Mercy ; Wayfarer's night song. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Light and darkness -- Poetry.
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End of the world -- Poetry.
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Despair -- Poetry.
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POETRY / American / African American & Black.
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POETRY / American / General.
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POETRY / Women Authors.
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American poetry -- African American authors.
(OCoLC141)fst00807349
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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Poetry. (DNLM)D055821
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections
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| Other Form: |
ebook version : 9780393867787 |
| ISBN |
9780393867770 (hardcover) |
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0393867773 (hardcover) |
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9781324050438 (paperback) |
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1324050438 (paperback) |
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