Year of plagues a memoir of 2020
Drawing from two cultural perspectives, an acclaimed British-Guyanese writer and award-winning poet combines personal reminiscence and philosophy to reflect on a year of personal and global crisis, as he was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic. 2020. The world around D'Ag...
| Main Author: | D'Aguiar, Fred, 1960- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Out of this time
- I do not want to alarm you
- Is this what dying looks like?
- Fred, do not be afraid
- You are my mortal enemy
- To fall, falling, and never land
- Help me, Anansi
- What Brer Rabbit did
- Surely I'm to be saved
- Hello, Miss Corona. Meet Mister Cancer
- The maddening pain
- The city is dying
- I listen and hear more
- I wake with his name on my tongue
- As long as I draw breath
- Juneteenth
- My father's body.