Saeed Jones on Evergreen Grief

Tim Johnson

“Because we are a grieving nation of grieving people, one of the things I’ve learned is that grief distorts your relationship to time, and the past and the present and the future get muddled.”

Saeed Jones is the author of the memoir How We Fight for Our Lives, winner of the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction and the poetry collection Prelude to Bruise, winner for the 2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry. His poetry and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times, Oxford American and GQ among other publications. His new poetry collection Alive at the End of the World is out now.