Apocalypse in Blue: On Betrayal, Failure, Forgiveness, and Jazz

By Amy Hassinger

Apocalypse in Blue is a complex, ambitious, and far-ranging book. Hassinger's innovative form, inspired by her central metaphor, jazz, keeps the book vibrantly leaping, surprising us with juxtapositions and unexpected harmonies. In the same way that jazz improv allows one instrument to step into the limelight and then recede, the multiple themes of the book--a mid-life marriage, the climate crisis, musicology, and philosophy--emerge and retreat. Hassinger's inquiry--"Who am I, and what am I for?"--furthered my own; I'm so grateful this book exists.

--Beth Ann Fennelly, Poet Laureate of Mississippi 2016-2021, Author of The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1985905523
• ISBN13: 9781985905528
• Release Date: May 2027
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 272 Pages
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher