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The Music Was Just Getting Good

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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 tracklist in her poetry collection of mixtapes, The Music Was Just Getting Good. 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 Good is the balm your soul has been waiting for.

Book Details

Publisher:
Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN:
9781524886202
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
240
Authors:
Alicia Cook
Published Date:
2024-01-09
Language:
English

About Alicia Cook

Based in Newark, New Jersey, Alicia Cook is a poet and essayist who works in addiction-awareness advocacy. Her collections are structured as mixtapes, pairing original poems with blackout-poetry remixes drawn from the same texts. Her debut, Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately (self-published 2016; Andrews McMeel, 2017), was a Goodreads Choice Award finalist. Subsequent collections from Andrews McMeel include I Hope My Voice Doesn't Skip (2018), Sorry I Haven't Texted You Back (2020), and The Music Was Just Getting Good (2024). She won the 2026 Central Avenue Poetry Prize for her poem "The Squirrel Made His Way."

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