{"product_id":"together-in-a-sudden-strangeness-isbn-9780593318720","title":"Together in a Sudden Strangeness","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“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.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e**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**\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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 \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA 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. \u003c\/i\u003eContributors: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJulia 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“Quinn’s collection covers remarkable ground . . . throughout, poets interrogate the use of their work and the limits of the imagination when reality presses in.” \u003cb\u003e—Clare Bucknell, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “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.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePoets \u0026amp; Writers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “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.” \u003cb\u003e—Book Riot\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “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.” \u003cb\u003e—Emily Choate, \u003ci\u003eChapter 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “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.” \u003cb\u003e—Marco De Ambrogi, \u003ci\u003eThe Lancet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A welcome collection of creative healing.” \u003cb\u003e—Andrew Jarvis, \u003ci\u003eNew York Journal of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eALICE QUINN, the executive director of the Poetry Society of America for eighteen years, was also the poetry editor at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003efrom 1987 to 2007 and an editor at Alfred A. Knopf for more than ten years prior to that. She teaches at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and is the editor of a book of Elizabeth Bishop’s writings, \u003ci\u003eEdgar Allan Poe \u0026amp; The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a forthcoming book of Bishop’s journals. She lives in New York City and Millerton, New York\u003cb\u003eDad Poem\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e by Joshua Bennett    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo visitors allowed \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e is what the masked woman behind\u003cbr\u003e the desk says only seconds\u003cbr\u003e after me and your mother\u003cbr\u003e arrive for the ultrasound. \u003ci\u003eBut I’m the father, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI explain, like it means something \u003cbr\u003edefensible. She looks at me as if \u003cbr\u003e I’ve just confessed to being a minotaur\u003cbr\u003e in human disguise. Repeats the line. Caught \u003cbr\u003ein the space between astonishment\u003cbr\u003e \u0026amp; rage, we hold hands a minute\u003cbr\u003e or so more, imagining you a final time before our rushed goodbye,\u003cbr\u003e your mother vanishing\u003cbr\u003e down the corridor\u003cbr\u003e to call forth a veiled vision\u003cbr\u003e of you through glowing white\u003cbr\u003e machines. One she will bring\u003cbr\u003e to me later on, printed and slight\u003cbr\u003e -ly wrinkled at its edges,\u003cbr\u003e this secondhand sight\u003cbr\u003e of you almost unbearable\u003cbr\u003e both for its beauty and\u003cbr\u003e necessary deferral.\u003cbr\u003e What can I be to you now,\u003cbr\u003e smallest one, across the expanse\u003cbr\u003e of category \u0026amp; world catastrophe,\u003cbr\u003e what love persists\u003cbr\u003e in a time without touch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCorona Diary \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e By Cornelius Eady\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese days, you want the poem to be\u003cbr\u003e A mask, soft veil between what floats \u003cbr\u003eInvisible, but known in the air.\u003cbr\u003e You’ve just read that there’s a singer\u003cbr\u003e You love who might be breathing their last, \u003cbr\u003eAnd wish the poem could travel, \u003cbr\u003eUnintrusive, as poems do from \u003cbr\u003e The page to the brain, a fan’s medicine.\u003cbr\u003e Those of us who are lucky enough\u003cbr\u003e To stay indoors with a salary count the days\u003cbr\u003e By press conference. For others, there is\u003cbr\u003e Always the dog and the park, the park\u003cbr\u003e And the dog. A relative calls; how you doin’?\u003cbr\u003e (Are you a ghost?). The buds emerge, on time,\u003cbr\u003e For their brief duty. The poem longs to be a filter, but \u003cbr\u003eIn floats Spring’s insistence. We wait.    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe End of Poetry \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e By Ada Limón    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnough of osseous and chickadee and sunflower\u003cbr\u003e and snowshoes, maple and seeds, samara and shoot, \u003cbr\u003eenough chiaroscuro, enough of thus and prophecy\u003cbr\u003e and the stoic farmer and faith and our father and tis\u003cbr\u003e of thee, enough of bosom and bud, skin and god\u003cbr\u003e not forgetting and star bodies and frozen birds,\u003cbr\u003e enough of the will to go on and not go on or how\u003cbr\u003e a certain light does a certain thing, enough\u003cbr\u003e of the kneeling and the rising and the looking\u003cbr\u003e inward and the looking up, enough of the gun,\u003cbr\u003e the drama, and the acquaintance’s suicide, the long-lost \u003cbr\u003eletter on the dresser, enough of the longing and\u003cbr\u003e the ego and the obliteration of ego, enough\u003cbr\u003e of the mother and the child and the father and the child \u003cbr\u003eand enough of the pointing to the world, weary\u003cbr\u003e and desperate, enough of the brutal and the border, \u003cbr\u003eenough of can you see me, can you hear me, enough\u003cbr\u003e I am human, enough I am alone and I am desperate, \u003cbr\u003eenough of the animal saving me, enough of the high \u003cbr\u003ewater, enough sorrow, enough of the air and its ease,\u003cbr\u003e I am asking you to touch me.    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVoyages \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e by Nathalie Handal    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShut off the music, the lights, \u003cbr\u003eclose the window and travel,    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003elet your body gather voices \u003cbr\u003eas if it’s flowers    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ein an infinite garden, \u003cbr\u003ethank your spirit    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003efor the flight, \u003cbr\u003ethank the earth    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003efor the echoes and empathy,\u003cbr\u003e for emptying your fears of time past,    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ebe certain of your direction, \u003cbr\u003eyour heart knows the road,    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethe one with needles under your feet \u003cbr\u003ethat feels less painful    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethan all the dying around, \u003cbr\u003ethe one that is made of water    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewhere floating is a \u003cbr\u003elong and short breath,    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eand always be kind to \u003cbr\u003ethe healing earth,    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003edon’t be tempted by its roars \u003cbr\u003ewhich are its pains,    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003elet the ache out, \u003cbr\u003egather all your selves    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eangel and bird \u003cbr\u003eancestor and bark,    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003egather your wanderings\u003cbr\u003e so you can rest for a while,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ethen awake to help\u003cbr\u003e those who didn’t make it back.","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301955031269,"sku":"NP9780593318720","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593318720.jpg?v=1767742755","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/together-in-a-sudden-strangeness-isbn-9780593318720","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}