Title:
A world out of reach : dispatches from life under lockdown : selections from The Yale Review's "Pandemic Files"
JLCTITLE245:
edited and with an introduction by Meghan O'Rourke.
Publication Information:
New Haven [Connecticut] : Yale University Press in association with The Yale Review, [2020]
Physical Description:
xv, 214 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9780300257359
Abstract:
Offers a crucial record of COVID-19 and the cataclysmic spring of 2020 in the voices of poets, essayists, scholars, and health care workers. Ranging from matters of policy and social justice to ancient history and personal stories of living under lockdown, this compilation from The Yale Review presents a first draft of one of the most tumultuous periods in recent history.--Adapted from back cover.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-206).
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Variant Title:
Portion of title: Dispatches from life under lockdown
Contents:
Do you know Alex Oreille / Katie Kitamura -- Cannon fodder / Laura Kolbe -- There's a sickness outside / Nitin Ahuja -- Medicine's innovation problem / Rena Xu -- March 11 / Alicia Mireles Christoff -- The lice / Miranda Featherstone -- Spring / Maya C. Popa -- Memories of West Fourth Street / Major Jackson -- The Law of Salus Populi / John Fabian Witt -- Pandemic inequality / Octávio Luiz Motta Ferraz -- The pandemic in Inupiaq / Joan Naviyuk Kane -- A nurse comes to Brooklyn / Nell Freudenberger -- Sirenland / Briallen Hopper -- The white string / Brandon Shimoda -- Trading riffs to slay monsters / Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung -- Leaving Yale for the coronavirus epicenter / Eric O'Keefe-Krebs -- Welcome to Zoom University / Sean Lynch -- Reading the Decameron through the lens of COVID-19 / Millicent Marcus -- A commencement deferred / Meghana Mysore -- History is another word for trauma / Rachel Jamison Webster -- The children know / Emily Ziff Griffin -- Prelude / Rowan Ricardo Phillips -- Get the shovel / Kathryn Lofton -- Two poems: provision, the hour between dog and wolf / Monica Ferrell -- The jail crisis / Russell Morse -- Coronavirus and the danger of disbelief / Randi Hutter Epstein -- Invisible kingdoms / Noreen Khawaja -- The trees witness ever thing / Victoria Chang -- How I became a prophetess / Joyelle McSweeney -- Lives or livelihoods / Khameer Kidia -- Thucydides in times of trouble / Emily Greenwood -- Safe / Elisa Gabbert -- I can't sleep / Emily Bernard -- Giving up the ghost / Hafizah Geter -- The crisis of asylum at Trump's border wall / Emily Gogolak -- The dancing drum / Roger Reeves.