Craig Santos Perez
Craig Santos Perez is an indigenous CHamoru poet from the Pacific Island of Guam. He is the author of five books of poetry and the coeditor of five anthologies. He teaches at the University of Hawaii–Manoa. His poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Virus” can be found here. It appears in the Mar/Apr 2021 issue of the
What was your original impetus for writing “Thirteen Ways of Looking At A Virus?”
I have always enjoyed Wallace Stevens’s poem for the way it envisions a subject from multiple perspectives. Viruses are such complex beings who cause complicated effects on bodies, societies, economies, etc. As the coronavirus began to spread across the globe, I started reading more about viruses, as well as watching documentaries and news reports. I turned to Stevens’s poem to help me grasp this multifaceted topic.
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