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Four Quartets: Poetry in the Pandemic
In this timely poetry anthology, established and emerging poets bear powerful witness to the COVID-19 pandemic in writing that reels from collective grief and uncertainty.
This extraordinary volume consists of sixteen separate chapbooks written by unique poets, as well as a collection of pandemic-era photography that capture the reality of COVID-19. The works of each unique poet are unified by a shared public and private experiences of quarantine, and the impulse toward creation during a time of enormous upheaval, injustice, and protest.
Each voice brings with it a deeply personal account of this globally historic moment, and in doing so, conveys the urgency of introspection, of isolation, and of revolution. The collection as a whole captures moments and feelings that are deeply personal, yet profoundly relatable. Four Quartets is a chance for reflection and remembrance, as we consider a time which has fundamentally transformed our individual and greater worlds.
See new work from established favorites and discover emerging artists in Four Quartets. The unique format allows the collection to create an “intimate democracy.” The pieces included in this collection feature work by B. A. Van Sise, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Yusef Komunyakaa, Laren McClung, Stephanie Strickland, Mary Jo Bang, Shane McCrae, Ken Chen, J. Mae Barizo, Dora Malech, Jon Davis, Lee Young-Ju, Jae Kim, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, A. Van Jordan, Maggie Queeney, Traci Brimhall, Brynn Saito, Denise Duhamel, and Rick Barot.
Praised as “an extraordinary bardic chant and threnody for humanity,” Four Quartets is a transcendent and ultimately transformative book of poetry written through the COVID-19 pandemic.
This extraordinary volume consists of sixteen separate chapbooks written by unique poets, as well as a collection of pandemic-era photography that capture the reality of COVID-19. The works of each unique poet are unified by a shared public and private experiences of quarantine, and the impulse toward creation during a time of enormous upheaval, injustice, and protest.
Each voice brings with it a deeply personal account of this globally historic moment, and in doing so, conveys the urgency of introspection, of isolation, and of revolution. The collection as a whole captures moments and feelings that are deeply personal, yet profoundly relatable. Four Quartets is a chance for reflection and remembrance, as we consider a time which has fundamentally transformed our individual and greater worlds.
See new work from established favorites and discover emerging artists in Four Quartets. The unique format allows the collection to create an “intimate democracy.” The pieces included in this collection feature work by B. A. Van Sise, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Yusef Komunyakaa, Laren McClung, Stephanie Strickland, Mary Jo Bang, Shane McCrae, Ken Chen, J. Mae Barizo, Dora Malech, Jon Davis, Lee Young-Ju, Jae Kim, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, A. Van Jordan, Maggie Queeney, Traci Brimhall, Brynn Saito, Denise Duhamel, and Rick Barot.
Praised as “an extraordinary bardic chant and threnody for humanity,” Four Quartets is a transcendent and ultimately transformative book of poetry written through the COVID-19 pandemic.
296 pages, Hardcover
Published November 25, 2020
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March 23, 2023
I loved this collection. It was so richly varied. I came to know some new poets and was able to visit with some old familiar ones. These poems helped me see the last few years more clearly.
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