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And we came outside and saw the stars again : writers from around the world on the COVID-19 pandemic / edited by Ilan Stavans.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Stavans, Ilan, editor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Epidemics--Social aspects.
Epidemics.
Genre:
Essays.
Poetry.
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Edition:
First Restless Books trade paperback edition.
Place of Publication:
Brooklyn, New York : Restless Books, [2020]
Summary:
Writers from around the world provide essays, stories, poems and artwork detailing the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Contents:
Part I. A mighty flame follows a tiny spark
Our lives as birds / Shenaz Patel
Letter to Italy / Jhumpa Lahiri
A return to the Middle Ages? / Mario Vargas Llosa
Pandemania / Daniel Halpern
The hieroglyphs of COVID-19 ; or lockdown / Hubert Haddad
The life of a virus / Javier Sinay
An area of critical concern / Rajiv Mohabir
Obstacle / Mona Kareem
Part II. The path to paradise begins in hell
Journal of the Kairos / Filip Springer
A cowardly new world / Teresa Solana
The intrusion / Naivo
Augury / Frederika Randall
Our old normal / Khalid Albaih
A certain slant of light / Hamid Ismailov
Genesis, COVID.19 / Andrés Neuman
@Coronarratives / Nadia Christidi
Plague days / Lynne Tillman
The song of the stormy petrel : a cautionary tale / Maxim Osipov
Today, when I could do nothing / Jane Hirshfield
The virus of hasty cover-up / György Spiró
Part III. I’m not alone in misery
The longest shift : a new doctor faces the Coronavirus in Queens / Rivka Galchen
Not without / Forrest Gander
Toiling under the canopy of empire / Lilya Kalaus
Chronicle from the vortex of a global tragedy / Gabriela Wiener
The age of calamity / Jon Lee Anderson and Ilan Stavans in dialogue
Peregrination / Louis-Philippe Dalembert
Draupadi on the mountaintop / Priyanka Champaneri
Confronting the pandemic in a time of revolt : voices from Chile / Ariel Dorfman
The parable of the bread / Juan Villoro
Confinement / Ana Simo
Part IV. Faith Is the substance of things hoped for
Corona correspondence #25 / Francine Prose
My first lockdown / Majed Abusalama
Coronapocalypse : reflections from lockdown / Pedro Ángel Palou
The measure of a distance / Chloe Aridjis
The descent / Wu Ming-Yi
Quarantine chronicle / Eko
Two poems / André Naffis-Sahely
The day after the plague / Yishai Sarid
In hiatus / Claire Messud
Poem for Hikmet / Matthew Zapruder
Part V. Love insists the loved loves back
Coronavirus blues / Gábor T. Szántó
Birthday / Sayed Kashua
Living with my younger self / Arshia Sattar
Empty days / Carlos Fonseca
Quarantine / Eavan Boland
Wounda / Eduardo Halfon
The arm of mercy / Grace Talusan
More was lost in the war / Daniel Alarcón
Three poems / Chris Abani
This, too, shall pass / Yoss
My seclusion / Giacomo Sartori.
Notes:
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
1-63206-301-8

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