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    A Function of Plagues: survival poems
    A Function of Plagues: survival poems
    A Function of Plagues: survival poems
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    A Function of Plagues: survival poems

    By Betsy Bouldin Williamson

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    The pandemic we are still living through has been largely framed in statistical terms which do not capture the human cost of the isolation, political upheaval, and natural disasters that many people have also struggled with during this time. The poetry in A Function of Plagues is a deeply personal reaction to the difficult emotional truth of survival after loss. How do we mourn? How do we honor the changes which come? The poems in this collection wrestle with these questions, and consider the powerful role of memory in finding a way forward.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateApr 24, 2023
    ISBN9781667892269
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      A Function of Plagues - Betsy Bouldin Williamson

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      ©2023 by Betsy Bouldin Williamson

      Print ISBN: 978-1-66789-225-2

      eBook ISBN: 978-1-66789-226-9

      Preface

      It is one thing to write, and quite another to publish, but in this case I am compelled to do both. I have the sense that I am writing for someone besides myself, although I’m not sure who that is. The last few years have taken a toll on all of us in ways that we may not yet fully appreciate, and have given rise to a profound sense of isolation and unease that is not captured by statistical analyses which attempt to measure our collective progress through anguished times. The truth is in the grit and blood of individual stories;

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