Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems Algonquin Books his life soon spirals out

his life soon spirals out of control

after a decade of silence

picnic time

Found comfort in never being lonely

When events are too much to handle in the real world

Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems Algonquin Books his life soon spirals outFinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Poetry) 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 Americas, and the worlds, experiments in democracy. Whether depicting the