Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems Algonquin Books Unwilling to let the sister

Unwilling to let the sister she’s spent so much of her life protecting go it alone

at the home of a Black former slave--on the morning following his funeral--his family hardly knows what to expect after she utters the words "

Caldecott Medal–winning author of The Invention of Hugo Cabret

after a decade of silence

For answers

Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems Algonquin Books Unwilling to let the sisterFinalist 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