When Saeed Jones was working on his new book of poems during the pandemic's lockdown phase, he learned something about grief — it doesn't end, it just changes with time. The book is called Alive ...

The latest poetry collection from award-winning memoirist, essayist, and poet Saeed Jones delivers on its titular promise of a living, breathing read in the face of grief, loss, and apocalypse.

Its poems address the demise of the world—the vase of blossoms on the table, the tree from which they came, even the human mind attending to them—which has provided poetry with so much of its ...

Louise Glück’s mode of lamentation was her signature, and it seems fitting that one of her poems occasions the end of this column, ... Luke Littler, the world’s best pro darts player, ...

Hanif Abdurraqib reflects on Octavia Butler, the Los Angeles fires, and the uses and misuses of the things that cannot be recovered.

The poem itself could be an entry. The speaker, a Black person, sees the world as a “fenced-off narrow space,” an unnecessarily walled place, and resolves to obliterate cruel boundaries.

Alive at the End of The World, the new poetry collection by Saeed Jones, reckons with continued living in the face of endless grief. Jeevika Verma | Posted on September 22, 2022, 5:04 AM.

When Saeed Jones was working on his new book of poems during the pandemic's lockdown phase, he learned something about grief — it doesn't end, it just changes with time. The book is called Alive at ...