These Black and Blue Red Zone Days (Collectible Special Edition)
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A special paperback text edition of the BLACK & BLUE LETTERS FROM THE RED ZONE art book. (Cost includes shipping and handling fees.)
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In the compelling stories, letters, and poems which comprise These Black and Blue Red Zone Days (ISBN: 979-8-218-17561-0), author and artist Aberjhani presents readers with portraits of what has it has meant to confront, and survive, different facets of the great pandemic of the 21st Century. Through observations which combine the intimacy of journal-writing with the objectivity of journalism and scholarly documentation, the celebrated creative explores how and why COVID-19 and its different variants have represented only one plague which America and the world are still battling. A pandemic of social, racial, and political imbalances and injustices––despite many wishing it otherwise––has proven just as deadly and costly.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction 1
Chapter 1: Into the Red Zone 7
Chapter 2: Through a COVID-19 Lens Darkly 25
Chapter 3: Collective Angst and Private Heavens 43
Chapter 4: Dreaming at 100.4 Fever Degrees Fahrenheit 59
Chapter 5: Black Folks and Existential Proclamations of the Blues 75
Chapter 6: Quarantine Cubism 95
Chapter 7: Remembering Red in a Different Way 109
Chapter 8: Traveling with the Angels 125
Chapter 9: Stormy Days in Georgia & Washington D.C. 143
Chapter 10: This Time of Renewal and Re-weaving 159
Epilogue: Seeker with the Inkhorn 185
Acknowledgments 193
Contributing Creatives 196
About the Author 203
Also available on Amazon
In the compelling stories, letters, and poems which comprise These Black and Blue Red Zone Days (ISBN: 979-8-218-17561-0), author and artist Aberjhani presents readers with portraits of what has it has meant to confront, and survive, different facets of the great pandemic of the 21st Century. Through observations which combine the intimacy of journal-writing with the objectivity of journalism and scholarly documentation, the celebrated creative explores how and why COVID-19 and its different variants have represented only one plague which America and the world are still battling. A pandemic of social, racial, and political imbalances and injustices––despite many wishing it otherwise––has proven just as deadly and costly.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction 1
Chapter 1: Into the Red Zone 7
Chapter 2: Through a COVID-19 Lens Darkly 25
Chapter 3: Collective Angst and Private Heavens 43
Chapter 4: Dreaming at 100.4 Fever Degrees Fahrenheit 59
Chapter 5: Black Folks and Existential Proclamations of the Blues 75
Chapter 6: Quarantine Cubism 95
Chapter 7: Remembering Red in a Different Way 109
Chapter 8: Traveling with the Angels 125
Chapter 9: Stormy Days in Georgia & Washington D.C. 143
Chapter 10: This Time of Renewal and Re-weaving 159
Epilogue: Seeker with the Inkhorn 185
Acknowledgments 193
Contributing Creatives 196
About the Author 203