Review: 'Pandemia & Other Poems' By Edward Vidaurre
Update: 2020-09-02
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The first thing you notice when you pick up this slim volume is the image on the cover featuring a young girl facing one way, standing on a shore by the water’s edge. In the foreground, a man wearing a mask walks in the other direction. These masks are ubiquitous now, but they never fail to surprise a little — still — to push us back toward the heart-sinking knowledge of the COVID-19 pandemic — its threat on our lives and livelihoods, its global stranglehold and its more local and personal assaults. Many writers have told me over these many months that it’s difficult for them to write, to act like the new normal is anything but a cloud over their workspace — one that scatters their focus and reshapes it into anxiety that impedes their work. Edward Vidaurre worked through those barriers somehow to create Pandemia & Other Poems . Divided into four main sections, and spanning a spectrum of form the poems address the pandemic directly or tangentially as another in the long line of
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