Year Of Plagues by Fred D'Aguiar


ISBN
9781800172418
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
336
Dimensions
135 x 216mm

In this piercing and unforgettable memoir, the award-winning poet reflects on a year of turbulence, fear and hope. For acclaimed British-Guyanese writer Fred DAguiar, 2020 was a year of personal and global crisis. The world around him was shattered by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter protests erupted across the United States, California burned, and DAguiar was diagnosed with stage-4 cancer. Year of Plagues is an intimate, multifaceted exploration of these seismic events, which trouble and alienate DAguiar from community, place and body. Combining personal reminiscence and philosophy, drawing on music and on poetry, DAguiar confronts profound questions about the purpose of pursuing a life of writing and teaching in the face of overwhelming upheavals; the imaginative and artistic strategies a writer can bring to bear as his sense of self and community are severely tested; and the quest for strength and solace necessary to help forge a better future. Drawn from distinct cultural perspectives - his Caribbean upbringing, London youth and American lifestyle - DAguiars beautiful and challenging memoir is a paean of resistance to despotic authority and life-threatening disease. In his first work of non-fiction, DAguiar subverts the traditional memoir with highly charged language that shifts from the quotidian to the lyrical, from the personal to the metaphysical. Both tender and ferocious, Year of Plagues is a harrowing yet uplifting genre-bending memoir of existence, protest, and survival.
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