Pandemic Prater

The voice in these poems describes his experience resulting from the 2020 pandemic. He lives alone, confined to his house with multiple emotions resulting from the books he reads, the movies the author watches, the dreams he has, and the world's news. The amalgamation of all these experiences unchained a myriad of emotions that become the poems of the book. There is are numerous intertexts from world literature intermingled with his nightmares and the world news-particularly the United States political events of the pandemic year. Some of the poems relate to hallucinating nightmarish experiences, while others reflect the day's political information. Those readers familiar with world literature will discover numerous allusions and fragments of literary works by literary giants.