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Together in a Sudden Strangeness

America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic

America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic

America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic

America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic

Edited by Alice Quinn

Edited by Alice Quinn

Edited by Alice Quinn

Edited by Alice Quinn

Edited by Alice Quinn

Edited by Alice Quinn

Read by Edoardo Ballerini, Gisela Chípe, Catherine Cohen, Michael Crouch, Catherine Ho, Hillary Huber, Nicole Lewis, Dani Martineck, Prentice Onayemi, Elisabeth Rodgers, Neil Shah and Shayna Small
Edited by Alice Quinn

Read by Edoardo Ballerini, Gisela Chípe, Catherine Cohen, Michael Crouch, Catherine Ho, Hillary Huber, Nicole Lewis, Dani Martineck, Prentice Onayemi, Elisabeth Rodgers, Neil Shah and Shayna Small
Edited by Alice Quinn

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    About Together in a Sudden Strangeness

    In this urgent outpouring of American voices, our poets speak to us from the earliest days of the pandemic lockdown, addressing our collective fear, grief, and hope from eloquent and diverse individual perspectives as the pandemic continues to shape our lives

    **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**

    As 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 New Yorker 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.
     
    In 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 swept the globe, reflecting on the inequities in our society that amplify sorrow and demand our engagement.
     
    From 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.

    About Together in a Sudden Strangeness

    In 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.

    “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.” —The Millions

    **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**

    As 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 New Yorker 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.

    In 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.

    From 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.

    A 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.

    About Together in a Sudden Strangeness

    In 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.

    “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.” —The Millions

    **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**

    As 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 New Yorker 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.

    In 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.

    From 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.

    A 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.

    About Together in a Sudden Strangeness

    In 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.

    “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.” —The Millions

    **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**

    As 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 New Yorker 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.

    In 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.

    From 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.

    A 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.

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    About Alice Quinn

    ALICE QUINN, the executive director of the Poetry Society of America for eighteen years, was also the poetry editor at The New Yorker from 1987 to 2007 and an editor at Alfred A. Knopf for more than ten years prior… More about Alice Quinn

    About Alice Quinn

    ALICE QUINN, the executive director of the Poetry Society of America for eighteen years, was also the poetry editor at The New Yorker from 1987 to 2007 and an editor at Alfred A. Knopf for more than ten years prior… More about Alice Quinn

    About Alice Quinn

    ALICE QUINN, the executive director of the Poetry Society of America for eighteen years, was also the poetry editor at The New Yorker from 1987 to 2007 and an editor at Alfred A. Knopf for more than ten years prior… More about Alice Quinn

    About Alice Quinn

    ALICE QUINN, the executive director of the Poetry Society of America for eighteen years, was also the poetry editor at The New Yorker from 1987 to 2007 and an editor at Alfred A. Knopf for more than ten years prior… More about Alice Quinn

    Product Details

    Category: Poetry

    Paperback | $20.00
    Published by Knopf
    Mar 21, 2023 | 208 Pages | 5-7/8 x 8-3/8 | ISBN 9781524711917

    Category: Poetry

    Hardcover | $27.00
    Published by Knopf
    Nov 17, 2020 | 208 Pages | 5-7/8 x 8-3/8 | ISBN 9780593318720

    Category: Poetry

    Ebook | $14.99
    Published by Knopf
    Jun 09, 2020 | 208 Pages | ISBN 9780593318713

    Category: Poetry | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $15.00
    Published by Random House Audio
    Nov 17, 2020 | 199 Minutes | ISBN 9780593412367

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    Praise

    “Quinn’s collection covers remarkable ground . . . throughout, poets interrogate the use of their work and the limits of the imagination when reality presses in.” —Clare Bucknell, The New Yorker
     
    “Timely . . . From fierce truths to dark humor, readers can share in the experience of being delighted and illuminated through this essential, urgent poetry anthology that addresses the fear, grief, and hope felt in these times.” —Poets & Writers
    “Together in a Sudden Strangeness offers beautiful poems about every fact of life that’s changed in this pandemic: Grief, fear, hope, loneliness, awe, bravery, and everything in between.” —Book Riot
      
    “This collection appears at the exact moment when the nuanced and profound nourishment it offers may be needed most. . . Both cathartic and challenging, Together in a Sudden Strangeness provides an early glimpse into how literary writers will discover new form and language to convey the unfolding perils of this unprecedented time.” —Emily Choate, Chapter 16
      
    “This collection of poems helps to reiterate our vulnerability and capacity of resilience and finding beauty and hope in the world around us in the direst circumstances. The day will come when reading these words again will remind us how it was living through this surreal period and that together we have survived it.” —Marco De Ambrogi, The Lancet
      
    “A welcome collection of creative healing.” —Andrew Jarvis, New York Journal of Books

    Table Of Contents

    Contributors:

    Julia Alvarez • Sarah Arvio • Jesse Ball • Rick Barot • Ellen Bass • Erin Belieu • Joshua Bennett • April Bernard • Jill Bialosky • David Biespiel • George Bilgere • Sophie Cabot Black • Traci Brimhall• Jericho Brown • Stephanie Burt • Danielle Chapman • Nicholas Christopher • Ama Codjoe • Catherine Cohen • Elizabeth Coleman • Billy Collins • Nicole Cooley • Peter Cooley • Timothy Donnelly • Cornelius Eady • John Freeman • Forrest Gander • Suzanne Gardinier • Deborah Garrison • Tammy Melody Gomez • Rigoberto Gonzalez • George Green • Linda Gregerson • Rachel Eliza Griffiths • Eliza Griswold • Julia Gue • Nathalie Handal • Brooks Haxton • Aleksandar Hemon • Brenda Hillman • Edward Hirsch • Jane Hirshfield • Richie Hofmann • Garrett Hongo • Fanny Howe • Didi Jackson • Major Jackson • Fady Joudah • Stephen Kampa • Vincent Katz • Susan Kinsolving • Ron Koertge • John Koethe • Yusef Komunyakaa • Li-Young Lee • Brad Leithauser • Dana Levin • Ada Limón • Dave Lucas • Amit Majmudar • Sally Wen Mao • Gail Mazur • Shane McCrae • Maureen McLane • Dante Michaux • Susan Minot • Susan Mitchell • Kamilah Aisha Moon • Jim Moore • Tomás Q. Morín • Laura Mullen • Carol Muske-Dukes • Eileen Myles • D. Nurkse • John Okrent • Sharon Olds • Kitty O’Meara • Tommy Orange • Ton Padgett • Sarah Paley • Jay Parini • Carl Phillips • Patrick Phillips • Rowan Ricardo Phillips • Katha Pollitt • Dean Rader • Claudia Rankine • Clare Rossini • Mary Jo Salter • Grace Schulman • Vijay Seshadri • Diane Seuss • Brenda Shaughnessy • Evie Shockley • Elizabeth Spires • Susan Stewart • Tess Taylor • Anne Waldman • Noah Warren • Rosanna Warren • Rex Wilder • Christian Wiman • Mark Wunderlich • Jenny Xie • Jeffrey Yang • Kevin Young • Matthew Zapruder

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