They closed the Danish borders today at 12 p.m. They won’t open again for a month – if they open.
These 31 poems will be my personal snapshot from a sealed-off Scandinavia, from the first day until the last.
The politicians hold pandemic press conferences.
I write pandemic poetry.
Pick up your copy of Pandemic Poetry today, or perhaps wait – you know, to see what happens.
Petersen’s poems show us how the pandemic infected our language, forced new terms into our vocabulary, gave familiar words new connotations. “Distance” no longer meant a path between two points, but only the six feet we had to keep from each other.
While we expect a collection of pandemic poems to be bleak, chaotic, and isolating, we also know, having lived through the past two years, that there are unexpected moments of hope. In “The Orchard,” Petersen reminds us that routine is comfort. Anthony D’Aries, American Book Review
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The Pandemic Poetry series includes:
and the collected works
Author’s note:
Much to my surprise (and delight) this collection of poems was reviewed in the American Book Review. I happened upon the review when doing a search for Christoffer Petersen – as you do. 😉
