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Playlist for the Apocalypse : poems
- Title
- Playlist for the Apocalypse : poems / Rita Dove.
- Author
- Dove, Rita
- Publication
- New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2021]
- ©2021
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc D 22-88 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Details
- Description
- 114 pages; 22 cm
- 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"--
- Uniform Title
- Poems. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Poems.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Poetry.
- Contents
- Time's arrow -- After Egypt -- Spring cricket -- A standing witness -- Eight angry odes -- Little book of woe.
- Call Number
- Sc D 22-88
- ISBN
- 9780393867770
- 0393867773
- LCCN
- 2021011714
- OCLC
- 1196173576
- Author
- Dove, Rita, author.
- Title
- Playlist for the Apocalypse : poems / Rita Dove.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 22-88