Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems Aug 5 2025 Mickey is seduced by the

Mickey is seduced by the simplicity of her hometown—and the flirtation of a former flame—but she soon learns that you can’t outrun your past

to keep their home

floating cat heads

and comes out on top in all his classes

and Flippy help the students express themselves through comics

Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems Aug 5 2025 Mickey is seduced by theFinalist 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