How to survive the apocalypse : poems / Jacqueline Allen Trimble.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trimble, Jacqueline Allen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Poetry.

African Americans.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xiii, 77 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Montgomery, AL : NewSouth Books, [2022]

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

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.

Notes:

Includes index of poem titles.

ISBN:

9781588384669

1588384667

OCLC:

1338693992