Robert Revere

"Corona" is Italian for crown. This series of prose poems and photographs borrows from the formal tradition of heroic crowns of sonnets, in which each section is connected to the last by a repeated line or phrase. The coronavirus was named for its shape: the series of spikes radiating outward from a sphere-like core resemble the sun's rays, or the crowns worn by royalty.

What would you do if a pig sought sanctuary in your office? How would you like to step into the middle of a French civil war? What would you do if your recently-deceased mother in law gave you stock market tips? How would you react to having your passport blown up in an embassy bombing? These and other dilemmas are explored in this intriguing book of short stories.