Corona

"Corona: Pandemic Poems" is a poignant reflection of the human experience.
I believe it truly captures what it is to live in America during the time of conspiracy theories, corrupt politicians, and Covid-19.
The words are raw emotion. The author expresses everything I've felt this year and then some.
- Amazon review from S. Decker In early 2020, the world was inexplicably forced to deal with the worst health crisis since the Spanish influenza of 1918. A variation of the novel coronavirus, which came to be known as Covid-19, began circulating in the Chinese province of Wuhan, and was quickly spread throughout the globe, becoming a pandemic with terrifying potential with a mortality rate much higher than the seasonal flu. Watching its impact manifest, and then watching the inept response from the United States government led by the Trump Administration, Jay Sizemore wrote a series of poems documenting the progress of the disease and the public's reaction to it. This book tries to capture the essence of the paranoia, the realistic fear of a fully realized mortality, and the will of the human spirit to cling to hope in the face of adversity. These are poems about despair, loneliness in isolation, the common thread of humanity in crisis, and the beauty of togetherness.