Who we lost A portable COVID memorial
Book - 2023
"In 2020, Martha Greenwald invited mourners to write memories of loved ones lost to COVID on the Who We Lost website. The site has been growing ever since, as the bereaved continue to write and publish stories, and the writers' toolbox section of the website offers guidance and prompts for anyone wishing to contribute their story about who they lost to this grassroots public memorial. The resultant book, Who We Lost: A Portable COVID Memorial, contains dozens of essays and a writing guide for those wishing to add their own story about a loved one who died from COVID. It is a community-generated tribute, a eulogy, a handbook, and a collective memorial"--
- Subjects
- Genres
- Essays
- Published
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Lakewood, OH :
Belt Publishing
2023.
- Language
- English
- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- 207 pages ; 18 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-190).
- ISBN
- 9781953368539
9781953368577
- Who We Lost: An Introduction
- Part I. Elegy
- Hope, Heart, Home
- Daily Notebook
- Waypoint
- What I Call Home
- Cooking with Mom
- Visitations
- All of It Was a Gift
- Walk Back with Me
- On the Road Again
- Saudades (in Memory of Cecy Bastos Slaugh)
- Traces in the Ether
- Dog Boy and Holiday Guy
- Saying I Miss You Is Not Enough
- I Special-Ordered My Brother
- Before COVID, After COVID
- Medicine and Memory
- Always
- Spring 2020
- This is All New to Us
- We Lost Many. Too Many.
- James Vance's Stranger
- Who We Lost
- What Would Gary Do?
- The Other Things I Learned from COVID
- Our Health Care Hero
- The Lost Keys That Found Me
- Writing It All Down
- Kindred Spirits
- People Are Crazy
- The World Was Also Waiting to Grieve
- Be Not Fond of Fair Words
- Often Our Banging Became Music
- No Sleep till Brooklyn
- The Things I Can't Fix
- Laughter Was at the Center of Our Relationship
- Tiara and Sash
- To Infinity and Beyond
- When I Learned Gina Had Died
- Emptying His Pockets
- Due to Complications
- He Knew We Were There
- Till Your Brothers or Your Sisters Come
- Bobbie Lee
- Part II. Give Sorrow Words: How to Write about Who We've Lost
- Love Letters
- Getting Started: Writing about Loss
- Prompts
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- About the Editor