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miss_elease's review against another edition
emotional
sad
medium-paced
4.0
saeed jones hits the perfect balance of grounded and imaginative imagery for me.
esabetta's review against another edition
5.0
Raw and poignant and packed full of meaning, Alive At The End Of The World punched me in the gut with truth, grief and empathy. It was an honor to read.
discarded_dust_jacket's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
4.0
“If You Cry Hard Enough, Any Grief Can Be the End of the World.”
This was my introduction to Jones’ poetry and I am not in any way shape or form qualified to make interpretations or analyses, but I will say, with a laymen’s understanding of poetry, I found this truly moving. It made me want to read his memoir as well.
One part that I read over and over was:
“I’ve hurt many people but it’s the unintended wounds I claim now as children. They stand beside my bed in the dark each night, a row of injuries asking me to wake up because they can’t sleep.”
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief and Death of parent
jesshooves's review against another edition
5.0
“The history of music in America is a sample of the sound of a woman sobbing…because a white man stole the song from the Black man she gave the song to as an act of what she thought was love but, of course, was devotion which, as many but not nearly enough of us now understand, is often mistaken for love but actually is more akin to unpaid labor…”
perazo's review against another edition
5.0
Damn, this really cut me deep. Grief is such a funny thing.