Alive at the End of the World

Poems

By: Saeed Jones

Narrated by: Saeed Jones

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 audiences toward the realization that the end of the world is already here―and the apocalypse is a state of being.

©2022 Saeed Jones (P)2022 Audible, Inc.

Excellent Collection

Brilliant. Searing. Evocative. Funny and Raw. This book was a thrill to listen to in the author’s own voice. I highly recommend it.

Loved!

I am a fan of his work and enjoyed this work in its entire complexity

Excellent book, kind of hard-hitting realism

This is an excellent book about life and the problems that we face and the people that we meet up with. Some parts of it are very angry with hard hitting realism. The poet is very talented and i think everyone would enjoy this book.