03835cam a2200445 4500 522089059 TxAuBib 20210904120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593412374 0593412370 292adc66-b2dd-4d28-8c4d-a4441f43f9fe OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5444888 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Quinn, Alice. Together in a Sudden Strangeness [Libby] : America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2020. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 91MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 91MB. Fiction. Poetry. HTML:In this urgent outpouring of American voices, our poets speak to us as they shelter in place, addressing our collective fear, grief, and hope from eloquent and diverse individual perspectives. **Featuring 107 poets, from A to Z—Julia Alvarez to Matthew Zapruder—with work in between by Jericho Brown, Billy Collins, Fanny Howe, Ada Limón, Sharon Olds, Tommy Orange, Claudia Rankine, Vijay Seshadri, and Jeffrey Yang** As the novel coronavirus and its devastating effects began to spread in the United States and around the world, Alice Quinn reached out to poets across the country to see if, and what, they were writing under quarantine. Moved and galvanized by the response, the onetime New Yorker poetry editor and recent former director of the Poetry Society of America began collecting the poems arriving in her inbox, assembling this various, intimate, and intricate portrait of our suddenly altered reality. In these pages, we find poets grieving for relatives they are separated from or recovering from illness themselves, attending to suddenly complicated household tasks or turning to literature for strength, considering the bravery of medical workers or working their own shifts at the hospital, and, as the Black Lives Matter movement has swept the globe, reflecting on the inequities in our society that amplify sorrow and demand our engagement. From fierce and resilient to wistful, darkly humorous, and emblematically reverent about the earth and the vulnerability of human beings in frightening times, the poems in this collection find the words to describe what can feel unspeakably difficult and strange, providing wisdom, companionship, and depths of feeling that enliven our spirits. A portion of the advance for this book was generously donated by Alice Quinn and the poets to Chefs for America, an organization helping feed communities in need across the country during the pandemic. . Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 13:21:58. Onayemi, Prentice. Rodgers Elisabeth. Shah, Neil. Small, Shayna. Ballerini, Edoardo. Chípe, Gisela. Cohen, Catherine. Crouch, Michael. Ho, Catherine. Huber, Hillary. Lewis, Nicole. Martineck, Dani. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/5444888-TogetherInASuddenStrangeness.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=292adc66-b2dd-4d28-8c4d-a4441f43f9fe&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/5444888-TogetherInASuddenStrangeness.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=292adc66-b2dd-4d28-8c4d-a4441f43f9fe&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)