As our world is transformed by the coronavirus pandemic, writers offer a powerful antidote to the fearful confines of isolation: a window onto lives and corners of the world beyond our own. Join Restless author Rajiv Mohabir on YouTube Live for a free virtual talk about And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again, our new anthology of literary dispatches from life during the pandemic.
And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again takes its title from the last line of Dante’s Inferno, when the poet and his guide emerge from hell to once again behold the beauty of the heavens. In that spirit, the stories, essays, poems, and artwork in this collection detail the harrowing experiences of life in the pandemic, while pointing toward a less isolated future. A portion of proceeds will go to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, which helps the passionate booksellers get back on their feet after the lockdown.
This event is hosted by New York City’s Tenement Museum. While this program is free, you can donate to support future programming from the Tenement Museum here.
When: Tuesday August 11, 2020 at 7 pm
About the Speaker
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Rajiv Mohabir is the author of The Cowherd’s Son (Tupelo Press 2017, winner of the 2015 Kundiman Prize; Eric Hoffer Honorable Mention 2018) and The Taxidermist’s Cut (Four Way Books 2016, winner of the Four Way Books Intro to Poetry Prize, Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry in 2017), and translator of I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara (1916) (Kaya Press 2019) which received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant Award. His memoir Antiman, winner of the 2019 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, is forthcoming from Restless Books (2021). He is an assistant professor of poetry at Emerson College and the translations editor at Waxwing Journal.
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Edited by Ilan Stavans
In this rich, eye-opening, and uplifting anthology, dozens of esteemed writers, poets, artists, and translators from more than thirty countries send literary dispatches from life during the pandemic. A portion of proceeds benefit booksellers in need.
World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translation of 2020
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632063021
Publication date: Aug 25, 2020