{"product_id":"in-the-plague-year-poems-paperback","title":"In the Plague Year: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eW. H. New\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn the Plague Year\u003c\/em\u003e is a book about living through the Covid-9 pandemic, when a coronavirus and its variants swept around the globe. In a remarkable suite of poems, William New reveals how, from March 2020 to March 2021, people coped with the threat. This is a book about love and death, laughter and loss, the price of isolation, and the cost of staying alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis pandemic was no minor unease, and this book is no workaday diary: it's a powerful record of people's lives as a new pandemic vocabulary became the idiom of the day. In these poems, people prove to be both dismissive and empathetic; officials react both creatively and slowly; institutions adapt or fail; not everyone survives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther writers have recorded the impact of plague on human history-think of Daniel Defoe's \u003cem\u003eJournal of the Plague Year\u003c\/em\u003e, or Samuel Pepys's account of the Black Death in London, or Albert Camus' tale of cholera in \u003cem\u003eThe Plague\u003c\/em\u003e: 'But what does it mean, the plague? It's life after all.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn the Plague Year\u003c\/em\u003e contrasts those who (in Camus's terms) see pestilence as 'a bogey of the mind' and those who see that 'there are sick people and they need curing.' New's poems are fresh, witty, serious, and sensitive―a powerful personal documentary that testifies to the strength of community.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 100\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.24 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47352206262521,"sku":"9781772442366","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/UzJXSE9EaVB0RFNyWldEeG9GaUhFQT09.webp?v=1769805741","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/in-the-plague-year-poems-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}