TY  - BOOK
AU  - D'Aguiar,Fred
TI  - Year of plagues: a memoir of 2020 
SN  - 9780063091535
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
KW  - D'Aguiar, Fred,
KW  - Authors, Guyanese
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Cancer
KW  - Patients
KW  - United States
KW  - COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
KW  - Two thousand twenty, A.D
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Out 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
N2  - Drawing 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; 2020. 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
ER  -