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03398aam a22003498i 4500 001 AA46257EF17F11EE82DF7F7D41ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240403010045 008 231111s2024 lau 000 0aeng 010 $a 2023024710 020 $a 0807181269 020 $a 9780807181263 035 $a (OCoLC)1407211589 040 $a LBSOR $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d GWC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3604 A946 Z46 2024 100 1 $a Davidson, Chad, $d 1970- $e author. 245 10 $a Bring out your dead : $b elegies from the plague year / $c Chad Davidson. 264 1 $a Baton Rouge : $b Louisiana State University Press, $c [2024] 300 $a viii, 175 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "Could the shlock-rock '70s band Kiss in any way affect the outcome of a death-dealing twenty-first-century virus? Is Bob Ross-that permed, inimitable painter of Edenic nostalgia on PBS-actually an emissary from the land of personal loss? How could the work of Edward Hopper-caught as it is in that sticky, nearly post-Victorian amber-prove the ideal backdrop to a global plague? What is the grammar, finally, of grief, of isolation? What is the syntax of omen, augur, and portent? The essays in Chad Davidson's Bring Out Your Dead: Elegies from the Plague Year mainly concern the loss of the author's father directly before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the ways in which the pandemic itself provided a strangely ideal backdrop to grieving. Refracted through the kaleidoscopic, yet strangely stagnant, isolation period in the first year of COVID-19, his father's death-in some ways another plague visited on the author-found its way into all his waking hours, coloring whatever he tried to write, particularly when he tried not to. Friends both lost and nearly so, the burning of Notre Dame in Paris, even the seemingly inconsequential discovery of a rash of chew toys in the yard: these events assumed unmistakable gravity, considered in the midst of a pandemic and the ruins of personal grief. Bring Out Your Dead adds Davidson's father to the growing list of loved ones lost in-and in this case right before-the pandemic. It's a memorial of sorts, given over to a father's memory and the grief endured living through dueling plagues (one viral, the other psychological). Ultimately, though, the book is more about the ways we eulogize, how we remember those who are gone, why their memories persist, and what summons them back into our thoughts, our language, and our lives"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a My plague year -- Like normal people -- Robot coffee -- Duck -- Unsent letter to the living #1 -- Jupiter -- No business -- Unsent letter to the living #2 -- Golden boy -- Unsent letter to the living #3 -- My amontillado -- The puzzle -- Aftermath -- Homecoming -- Unsent letter to the living #4 -- The best kiss story ever. 600 10 $a Davidson, Chad, $d 1970- 600 10 $a Davidson, Chad, $d 1970- $x Family. 650 0 $a Bereavement. 650 0 $a COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- 650 0 $a Authors, American $y 21st century $v Biography. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Davidson, Chad, 1970- $t Bring out your dead $d Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2024] $z 9780807181669 $w (DLC) 2023024711 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240502013020.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AA46257EF17F11EE82DF7F7D41ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search