{"product_id":"pandemic-poems-first-wave-9781777452308","title":"Pandemic Poems: First Wave","description":"\u003cp\u003eEarly in the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, Olive Senior began posting her series of Pandemic Poems on social media. The project was a way of bearing witness to the strangeness of it all and forging a reassuring connection with readers. Each poem is a riff on a word or phrase trending in the first wave of the pandemic - an A to Z of the lexicon newly coined or quickly repurposed for our historic moment. By presenting these words and phrases in sequence, Senior offers a timeline of the way events unfolded and how the language and preoccupations kept changing in response. In this accessible collection, Senior captures the zeitgeist of 2020.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Generations to come will read these poems and chart the shifts we've been making or not making as a global community linked by a singular virus bearing multiple challenges. We've needed these poems, and we continue to ever more.\"-Faizal Deen, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Greatest Films\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Olive Senior's Pandemic Poems invite, seduce and require us to think and feel in new ways about the intersecting crises of this terrible year. I was moved to laughter, to weeping, and to silence by these poems. They are essential reading.\"-Rachel L. Mordecai, author of \u003cem\u003eCitizenship under Pressure: The 1970s in Jamaican Literature and Culture\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003ePandemic Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, Olive Senior captures the sense of dread that has affected us since the virus has crept into our lives. . . . Senior transforms seemingly mundane events into meditations on mortality. \u003cem\u003ePandemic Poems\u003c\/em\u003e offers a much-needed respite from the deluge of data that surrounds us and provides moments to pause and, perhaps, find peace.\"-Geoffrey Philp, author of Garvey's Ghost\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSenior, Olive:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Olive Senior is an award-winning author and recipient of the Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life. She has published works of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and children's literature. Pandemic Poems: First Wave is her nineteenth book. She lives in Toronto and Jamaica. See her website for more: www.olivesenior.com","brand":"Olive Senior","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50445173063954,"sku":"9781777452308","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a18a935e-d220-43ef-ade7-5c378444eb03.jpg?v=1729697073","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/pandemic-poems-first-wave-9781777452308","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}