{"product_id":"together-in-a-sudden-strangeness-americas-poets-respond-to-the-pandemic-hardcover","title":"Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlice Quinn\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"One of the best books of poetry of the year . . . Quinn has accomplished something dizzying here: arranged a stellar cast of poets . . . It is what all anthologies must be: comprehensive, contradictory, stirring.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e**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**\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs 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 \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA 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. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eALICE QUINN, the executive director of the Poetry Society of America for eighteen years, was also the poetry editor at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003efrom 1987 to 2007 and an editor at Alfred A. Knopf for more than ten years prior to that. She teaches at Columbia University's School of the Arts and is the editor of a book of Elizabeth Bishop's writings, \u003ci\u003eEdgar Allan Poe \u0026amp; The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a forthcoming book of Bishop's journals. She lives in New York City and Millerton, New York\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.7 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 17, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768796774688,"sku":"9780593318720","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/aaef1367eafa34917834f58afcadef7b.webp?v=1780337460","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/together-in-a-sudden-strangeness-americas-poets-respond-to-the-pandemic-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}