Alive at the End of the World

A 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 hard-earned laughter, Saeed Jones confronts the afterlife of his own grief in order to make sense of our shared calamity. Amid the peril of mass shootings, climate change, and systemic failure, he identifies moments that seem routine even as they open chasms of hurt. Jones waltzes with chaos and brings forth cultural icons like Whitney Houston, Toni Morrison, Little Richard, and Paul Mooney to illuminate how long and how richly 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 us toward the realization that the end of the world is already here-and the apocalypse is a state of being.