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050 14 $aPR9320.9.D34$bZ46 2021
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100 1 $aD'Aguiar, Fred,$d1960-$eauthor.
245 10 $aYear of plagues :$ba memoir of 2020 /$cFred D'Aguiar.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bHarper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,$c[2021]
264 4 $c©2021
300 $a323 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 $aDrawing 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.
505 0 $aOut 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.
520 $a2020. The world around D'Aguiar was shattered by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter protests erupted across the United States, California burned... and D'Aguiar was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. Here he confronts profound questions about the purpose of pursuing a life of writing and teaching in the face of overwhelming upheavals; the imaginative and artistic strategies a writer can bring to bear as his sense of self and community are severely tested; and the quest for strength and solace necessary to help forge a better future. The resulting memoir is a paean of resistance to despotic authority and life-threatening disease. -- adapted from jacket
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650 0 $aCOVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
650 0 $aTwo thousand twenty, A.D.
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650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global).$2bisacsh
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