Dear Vaccine : : Global Voices Speak to the Pandemic

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Call Number: 811.6 De, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Literary Arts / Plays & Poetry / Dear vaccine
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Lessons: what we learned while alone -- Gratitude: only as lovely as you are shared -- Grief: that breath could bring us death -- The clinic: the place where we met and loved each other -- Nostalgia: every day a meditation in remembering -- Envisioning the future: believing we belong to the same beauty.
"People from around the world reflect on the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccine through poetry ... In March 2021, the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University and the University of Arizona Poetry Center launched the website for the Global Vaccine Poem project, inviting anyone to share experiences of the pandemic and vaccination through poetry. Dear Vaccine features selections from over 2,000 poetry submissions to the project, which come from all 50 states and 118 different countries. Internationally acclaimed author Naomi Shihab Nye, in her introduction, highlights the human dimensions found across the responses. Richard Carmona, the 17th Surgeon General of the United States, provides a foreword that contextualizes the global scope of the problem, as well as the political and public health dimensions. Making use of poetry's powerful tools to connect us across division, Dear Vaccine reminds us that medical advances alone are not enough to solve the vexing challenges of the pandemic; the arts--and poetry--have a profound and critical role to play"--Publisher's website.

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Dear Vaccine: Global Voices Speak to the Pandemic submitted by irenabn on September 6, 2022, 4:01pm Disturbing. Fine writers have been invited to submit essays and poetry to this collection. On that level, and as documentation of sincere responses to experience during the Covid pandemic Zeitgeist, this book is good and may be useful for historical purposes in future. 

However, the premise of the project is questionable. It reads like a religious rosary or series of love letters addressed ostensibly to "the vaccine"- but more accurately to certain big companies, their investors/shareholders, and agencies with which they have serious conflicts of financial interest. They are being conceived of as the only possible route to a fulfilling life.  All of them have been reaping great profit from the situation, and- as demonstrated amply in this collection- from the hopes and fears of many humans.