The Music Was Just Getting Good
Andrews McMeel Publishing · Paperback · January 9, 2024
Some good things must come to an end for new things to begin.
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- Who it’s for
- Mixtape-shaped poetry meets grief, recovery, and the possibility of a better day.
- Themes
- Grief, Mental health, Hope and recovery
- Genres
- Poetry About Death, Inspirational Poetry, American Poetry
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Some good things must come to an end for new things to begin. Poet Alicia Cook explores this grievous emotion in her latest and final mixtape collection, The Music Was Just Getting Good. Alicia Cook is back with the highly anticipated final track list in her poetry collection of mixtapes, The Music Was Just Getting Good.
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Following in the footsteps of her first two installments, Stuff I’ve Been Feeling Lately (2016) and Sorry I Haven’t Texted You Back (2020), Cook is closing out her trilogy with a poignant and all too relatable look at the ebbs and flows of life and why, even during our most difficult seasons, a better day can appear just around the corner. Spread across 184 tracks (92 poems and 92 blackout poems), each paired with an accompanying song, Cook returns to her evergreen themes of mental health, hope, and recovery, and reminds readers that grief is not reserved solely for death. We may grieve who we used to be, moments that never came to pass, physical places, and, of course, people; people who’ve died, but also those who left, and those we had to leave behind. A stunning closing number in a timely and necessary collection of work, The Music Was Just Getting Goodis the balm your soul has been waiting for.
Grief in Many Forms
Mixtape-shaped poetry meets grief, recovery, and the possibility of a better day.
Come here for
- Poems and blackout poems, each paired with a song
- Reflections on grieving people, places, and former selves
Expect
- A closing collection in a poetry trilogy
- Tender attention to mental health, hope, and recovery
Where it sits
| Poetry About Death | 63% |
|---|---|
| Inspirational Poetry | 46% |
| American Poetry | 26% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Poetry About Death
- Family Poems
- Women Poets
- Authors
- Alicia Cook
- Publisher
- Andrews McMeel Publishing
- Published
- January 9, 2024
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Grief · Mental health · Hope and recovery
- Reading lane
- Poetry About Death