A review by vivian_m_anderson
Alive at the End of the World by Saeed Jones

challenging dark emotional reflective sad

4.0

very hit or miss for me -- reminds me a bit of a fortune for your disaster but certainly does not reach that level of searing prose. i loved the title and themes of grief, death, apocalypticism, etc., and certain poems threaded the lines of those themes really nicely. other poems fell a little flat for me, but perhaps I'm just not the target audience! will leave some fav quotes below

"whose house is this who did i hurt to get here and is it too late to ask for help" note: epigraph, not his work but well chosen.

"your grief is so heavy, when we lowered the coffin, all the pall bearers fell in too."