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How to Survive the Apocalypse, the second collection from poet Jacqueline Allen Trimble, examines the many apocalypses that African Americans have weathered, advising that those who wish to avoid annihilation should "live by rage and joy and turpentine." Trimble reimagines the sonnet and the parable, producing poems of ironic indictment and joyous celebration. The book explores aspects of the Black experience in America, from Black woman pride, Nat Turner, kneeling, and the burning down of fast-food restaurants. Sometimes funny, sometimes biting, How to Survive the Apocalypse connects history to the contemporary and in the writing proves that the only balm for rage is creativity.
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"In the great American tradition of how-to manuals, we now have Jacqueline Allen Trimble's How to Survive the Apocalypse, a fast-moving meditation on what plagues us in our cities, our homes, and our relationships, especially the racial relationships that a Black woman, with Black children, in Montgomery, Alabama, has navigated. Trimble begins with family history and then detonates her way to the
Jeanie Thompson
"In How to Survive the Apocalypse, Jacqueline Trimble has crafted a powerful, clear-eyed guidebook for navigating the world. By turns witty and wry, these sharply observed poems ask us to consider the thin veil between memory and truth. 'Do you see how we survived?' asks Trimble in 'The Fire Shut Up in My Bones.' These remarkable poems tell us and teach us. An extraordinary book."
Catherine Pierce, Poet Laureate of Mississippi
"Jaqueline Trimble's How to Survive the Apocalypse is a delicate kind of magic. This is a book that revels in a present and a future so rooted in history that it rhymes. Trimble's poems and stories remind us that apocalypse, for many of us, has been our primary inheritance. This is a collections that sings of all Black folks have endured in this country, not simply as a celebration of that enduran
Nate Marshall