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A piercing, unflinching new volume offers necessary music for our tumultuous present, from perhaps the best public poet we have (The Boston Globe)

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"These poems witness and celebrate the grandeur and tragedy contained in a single life, a single moment, a single word." -- Cornelia Channing - New York Magazine
"Playlist for the Apocalypse, Rita Dove’s new book of poems, is among her best… You sense the books of many poets of Dove’s generation slipping to the back of the bookcase. Not hers." -- Dwight Garner - The New York Times Book Review
"Plenty of poems here address disability, history and quotidian human behavior, but racism and economic oppression are the former poet laureate’s primary concerns in this book, her first in 12 years. With Dove’s characteristically affable voice, the book tries to understand saving graces and the things they save us from." -- 100 Notable Books of 2021 - The New York Times

Playlist for the Apocalypse

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    A Paperback / softback by Rita Dove

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      Publisher: WW Norton & Co
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 28/04/2023
      ISBN13: 9781324050438, 978-1324050438
      ISBN10: 1324050438
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A piercing, unflinching new volume offers necessary music for our tumultuous present, from perhaps the best public poet we have (The Boston Globe)

      Trade Review
      "These poems witness and celebrate the grandeur and tragedy contained in a single life, a single moment, a single word." -- Cornelia Channing - New York Magazine
      "Playlist for the Apocalypse, Rita Dove’s new book of poems, is among her best… You sense the books of many poets of Dove’s generation slipping to the back of the bookcase. Not hers." -- Dwight Garner - The New York Times Book Review
      "Plenty of poems here address disability, history and quotidian human behavior, but racism and economic oppression are the former poet laureate’s primary concerns in this book, her first in 12 years. With Dove’s characteristically affable voice, the book tries to understand saving graces and the things they save us from." -- 100 Notable Books of 2021 - The New York Times

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