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How to survive the apocalypse : poems
Published [2022] by NewSouth Books, Montgomery, AL
ISBN 9781588384669
Bib Id 1197250
Copyright 2022
Description xiii, 77 pages ; 21 cm
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cam a22 i 4500
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2022-934636
ISBN
9781588384669 (hardcover) $21.95
1588384667
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811 Trimble
Title
How to survive the apocalypse : poems
Publication Information
[2022] by NewSouth Books, Montgomery, AL :
Copyright Date
©2022
Description
xiii, 77 pages ; 21 cm
Note
Includes index of poem titles.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: ONE -- Plague -- What If the Supreme Court Were Really the Supremes? -- Oh, Say Can You See -- Sonnet for Where We Are Now -- The Laws of Insurrectionists -- A Policy Statement of What Wasn't Said -- Kneeling Is No Longer an Option -- Allies -- Nat Turner Returns for His Stolen Parts and Finds a Sermon of Rage -- The Four Horsemen Came to Town Last Tuesday -- Gunfight at the Neighborhood Market on Government Street -- Parable of the Woman and the Peach Trees -- World Economics -- This Is Why People Burning Down Fast Food loints and Whatnot -- Denotation for the People -- Some of Us Were Real Regular and That's All Right -- Biographia Black Woman Late 19th Early 20th Century -- The Young White Gentleman Wants Lillian to Pass and Be His Bride -- My Mama Tries to Keep Me from the Blues -- Lillian's Prayer for Her Boy Child -- Two -- The Fire Shut Up in My Bones -- Parable -- Running in America -- Motherhood -- `We Was Girls Together' -- When Prince Comes Back from Heaven -- The Census Man Wants to Know -- Counting Race -- Even the Moon Must Have Troubles -- My Son Says the Moon Landing Was a Lie -- The Tour Guide Wonders If We Are Proud Our Ancestors Got to Build This Plantation, Demopolis, Alabama, 2019 -- Details -- Possible Responses to the Nineteen-Year-Old Butcher at the Corner Store in My Neighborhood Who Said `You Look Like a Girl Who Knows What to Do with Some Collard Greens' -- The Language of Joy -- My Daughter Says I Need Xanax: A Parable -- So Much Depends Upon -- How to Make Neckbones and Rice -- The Mona Lisa in Real Life: On First Looking into Lucille Clifton's -- Work after an Education of a Certain Type: FYI to the Men Who Rejected a Wikipedia Entry on Me -- Because They Didn't Think I was Important Enough -- A Woman Cohabitates with Three Men -- The First Shall Be Last -- Alabama the Beautiful, America -- Poem for My Neighbor Whose Good Intentions Are Wolf Pelt -- How to Survive the Apocalypse.
Summary
"How to Survive the Apocalypse, the second collection from poet Jacqueline Allen Trimble, examines the many apocalypses that African Americans have weathered, advising that those who wish to avoid annihilation should "live by rage and joy and turpentine." Trimble reimagines the sonnet and the parable, producing poems of ironic indictment and joyous celebration. The book explores aspects of the Black experience in America, from Black woman pride, Nat Turner, kneeling, and the burning down of fast-food restaurants. Sometimes funny, sometimes biting, How to Survive the Apocalypse connects history to the contemporary and in the writing proves that the only balm for rage is creativity."--Amazon
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