Before The After

Résumé du livre

Blending humor, disappointment and wisdom, Mary Anne invites us to share her travels navigating a world altered by the rise of Black Lives Matter and curtailed by COVID-19. Poetic vignettes narrate events cancelled due to the virus, an imaginative letter to humanity from a disappointed Gaia, how life during the time of coronavirus has radically changed. She explores what we have lost and how we transform and adapt.--Dr. Jennifer Lagier, Author of Camille Comes Unglued and Dystopia Playlist.---Mary Anne Anderson's poems ignite an imagery of new normal forced upon us by the relentless pandemic as it permeates our lives, unmasking issues of unequal justice, police brutality and systemic racism while showing how the human spirit and social courage attempt to adapt to new normal. Her poems move around and in-between what defines us and what we do to ourselves. Her poetry is concerned with how we fail to understand one another due to bias, hate, ignorance and intolerance." - Ashok K. Bhargava, President of Writers International NetworkMary Anne Anderson takes you on an emotional journey through the COVID Virus pandemic with a poetic narrative of the artist's survival during a season of tragedy. She brilliantly threads insight and compassion and combines fierce intelligence with a bared heart in this remarkable book. - Melinda Gohn, Maui Live Poets Society, International Peace Poem Project