Shopping Lists for the Apocalypse

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The apocalypse referred to in the title of the book</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>may indeed be upon us but Waldman is keeping these</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>shopping lists showing us ways out giving us hope allowing</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>us to live inside the poems for their duration on the page</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>taking us by the collar and making us listen. Listen close.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>~ Jay Parini from the Introduction</span></p>