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 poet was nearing the 10-year anniversary of his mother's passing, and as he was working through his own loss, he was also surrounded by a collective experience of it.
"My reckoning with those personal feelings kind of keyed me into what we're kind of going through in a really a systemic way," Jones says. As he points to climate disaster, gun violence, and America's broader systemic failures — he also writes about a new relationship and falling in love.He says the reader sees him on the page asking:"Am I allowed to love? Can we do this right now? Like, is this an appropriate time?"scream but tonight, I will moanThe poet adds that these questions about love come from an American culture too invested in just"moving on.
And through his poems, Jones reminds us that even though it often feels like the end of the world — we are alive, and we are here.
Received my copy last week. Dog-eared already, and will be back to it many times over again for more. theferocity
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