Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems Aug 5 2025 as she goes from a

as she goes from a lovestruck teenager living in the shadow of the Vietnam War to a determined young mother immigrating to America in search of a better life for her children

floating cat heads

The goal is to see if it is possible to successfully go “off the grid” and escape detection

all Javier can imagine is rushing into his parents’ arms

Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems Aug 5 2025 as she goes from aFinalist 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