And we came outside and saw the stars again :

And we came outside and saw the stars again : writers from around the world on the COVID-19 pandemic / edited by Ilan Stavans. - First Restless Books trade paperback edition. - Brooklyn, NY : Restless Books, Inc., 2020. - xx, 379 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Introduction / Our Lives as Birds / Letter to Italy / A Return to the Middle Ages? / Pandemania / The Hieroglyphs of COVID-19; or Lockdown / The Life of a Virus / An Area of Critical Concern / Obstacle / Journal of the Kairos / A Cowardly New World / The Intrusion / Augury / Our Old Normal / A Certain Slant of Light / Genesis, COVID.19 / @Coronarratives / Plague Days / The Song of the Stormy Petrel: A Cautionary Tale / Today, When I Could Do Nothing / The Virus of Hasty Cover-Up / The Longest Shift: A New Doctor Faces the Coronavirus in Queens / Not Without / Toiling Under the Canopy of Empire / Chronicle from the Vortex of a Global Tragedy / The Age of Calamity / Peregrination / Draupadi on the Mountaintop / Confronting the Pandemic in a Time of Revolt: Voices from Chile / The Parable of the Bread / Confinement / Corona Correspondence #25 / My First Lockdown / Coronapocalypse: Reflections from Lockdown / The Measure of a Distance / The Descent / Quarantine Chronicle / Two Poems / The Day after the Plague / In Hiatus / Poem for Hikmet / Coronavirus Blues / Birthday / Living with My Younger Self / Empty Days / Quarantine / Wounda / The Arm of Mercy / More Was Lost in the War / Three Poems / This, Too, Shall Pass / My Seclusion / by Ilan Stavans -- Shenaz Patel (Mauritius) ; translated by Lisa Ducasse -- Jhumpa Lahiri (United States/Italy) ; translated by Alta L. Price -- Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) ; translated by Samuel Rutter -- Daniel Halpern (United States) -- Hubert Haddad (Tunisia / France) ; translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman -- Javier Sinay (Argentina) ; translated by Robert Croll -- Rajiv Mohabir (United States / Guyana) -- Mona Kareem (Kuwait / United States) -- Filip Springer (Poland) ; translated by Sean Gasper Bye -- Teresa Solana (Spain) ; translated by Peter Bush -- Naivo (Madagascar) ; translated by Allison M. Charette -- Frederika Randall (United States / Italy) -- Khalid Albaih (Sudan) -- Hamid Ismailov (Uzbekistan) ; translated by Shelley Fairweather-Vega -- And�rs Neuman (Argentina / Spain) ; translated by Ilan Stavans -- Nadia Christidi (Lebanon) -- Lynne Tillman (United States) -- Maxim Osipov (Russia) ; translated by Boris Dralyuk -- Jane Hirshfield (United States) -- G�yrgy Spi�r (Hungary) ; translated by Bernard Adams -- Rivka Galchen (Canada / United States) -- Forrest Gander (United States) -- Lilya Kalaus (Kazakhstan) ; translated by Shelley Fairweather-Vega -- Gabriela Wiener (Peru) ; translated by Jessica Powell -- Jon lee Anderson and Ilan Stavans (United States and Mexico) -- Louis-Philippe Dalembert (Haiti) ; translated by Ghjulia Romiti -- Priyanka Champaneri (United States) -- Ariel Dorfman (Chile) -- Juan Villoro (Mexico) ; translated by Charlotte Coombe -- Ana Simo (United States) -- Francine Prose (United States) -- Majed Abusalama (Palestine) -- Pedro �Angel Palou (Mexico) ; translated by Hebe Powell -- Chloe Aridjis (Mexico / United Kingdom) -- Wu Ming-Yi (Taiwan) ; translated by Jenna Tang -- Eko (Mexico) -- And�r Naffis-Sahely (Italy / United Arab Emirates) -- Yishai Sarid (Israel) ; translated by Ronnie Hope -- Claire Messud (United States) -- Matthew Zapruder (United States) -- �Gbor T. S�znt�o (Hungary) ; translated by Paul Olchv�ary -- Sayed Kashua (Palestinian citizen of Israel) ; translated by Mitch Ginsburg -- Arshia Sattar (India) -- Carlos Fonseca (Costa Rica / Puerto Rico) -- Eavan Boland (Ireland) -- Eduardo Halfon (Guatemala) -- Grace Talusan (Philippines / United States) -- Daniel Alar�cn (Peru) ; translated by Ilan Stavans -- Chris Abani (Nigeria / United States) -- Yoss (Cuba) ; translated by David Frye -- Giacomo Sartori (Italy) ; translated by Frederika Randall.

Writers from around the world provide essays, stories, poems and artwork detailing the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic.--

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COVID-19 (Disease)--Social aspects.
Epidemics--Social aspects.

RA644.C67 / A65 2020