Before The After: Love, Loss, and Revolution in the Time of COVID Paperback – January 5, 2021 by Mary Anne Anderson

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BEFORE THE AFTER critically captures the COVID-19 pandemic with passion through the eyes of a poet, woman and gentle soul. Poems on adapting to the new environment, raging against a virus that has impacted us all and lamenting how this reflects a mistreatment of mother earth.

“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.

“Read this book straight through! Images in every poem build on the ones before to grow poem-by-poem increasingly profound. Lyrical words firing wonderful images – stanza by stanza, poem by poem – dig an entrance into unexpected depth.

Sometimes single words dissolved me through a floor I always saw as solid. If you want intellectual poetry, go elsewhere. For lyric poetry to enchant you – stay here – read this book!” — John Calkins, author of Dad, Demons, Dames and a Dwarf: My Trip Down Freedom Road with Mancow Muller