{"product_id":"corona-speaks-and-threatens-mt-attaf-9798276359335","title":"Corona Speaks... and Threatens: An Inner Journey Through Dread and Revelation","description":"\u003cb\u003eCorona Speaks... and Threatens\u003c\/b\u003e is a journey in verse through human fragility, inner silences, and the depths of trial. The poem becomes here a language of the world - a meditation on the ephemeral, a prayer for a wounded humanity in search of meaning. At the crossroads of the spiritual and the real, these pages invite the reader to listen differently: to what silence says, what absence reveals, and what life whispers at the edge of the abyss.\u003cbr\u003eHere, Corona speaks.\u003cbr\u003eIt first introduces itself, explains its metamorphoses, questions its nature, and gradually asserts its presence. Bold and defiant, it challenges the laws of time and space, the density of matter, and the fragile breath of life. Then come its heirs: the variants - Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Omicron - each stepping forward to recite its own litany.\u003cbr\u003eBut the pandemic is no monologue. Seven anonymous passersby, drifting silhouettes in the echo of dismay, reveal their anxieties and helplessness. Each, through their words and gaze, sketches an intimate map of a shared fear.\u003cbr\u003eCorona does not stop there.\u003cbr\u003eIt turns to spiritual and philosophical figures, summoning to its tribunal the imam, the priest, the rabbi, the atheist, and the scientist. Then, in a daring gesture, it confronts the saints of the great traditions - Christian, Muslim, Jewish - in dizzying games of chess where the enigma of the sacred is at stake.\u003cbr\u003eNext, it speaks to the people, giving voice to those whose professions intersect our daily lives: a homeless man, a soldier, a farmer, a mail carrier, a taxi driver, a tourist. Each testifies, with the weight of lived experience, to the shockwave shaking their inner world.\u003cbr\u003eThe medical world is not spared.\u003cbr\u003eIn exchanges at times hushed, often harsh and accusatory, Corona addresses nurses, doctors - even the Minister of Health himself.\u003cbr\u003eAnd what about women?\u003cbr\u003eThey, too, have their chapter. Corona speaks to ten of them, from different cultures and lands. To them, it confides both its admiration and its warning.\u003cbr\u003eThe second-to-last section, soberly titled \u003ci\u003e\"The Twilight of the Elders,\"\u003c\/i\u003e is an elegy for those taken by the pandemic - a funeral lament where raw emotion rises in memory of vanished faces, voices, and irreplaceable presences.\u003cbr\u003eBut every twilight calls for renewal.\u003cbr\u003eAs an epilogue, a song of hope rises above the tumult. It celebrates human resilience - that unyielding will to overcome, to wrest triumph from the hands of fate.\u003cbr\u003eThe entire work is woven in quatrains - four-line stanzas - and some chapters unfold in successive acts, multiplying perspectives and deepening the dialogue.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHappy reading.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mt Attaf\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798276359335\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/27\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.73d","brand":"Mt Attaf","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48137270427903,"sku":"9798276359335","price":33.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9cfae6b3-7cca-4059-a593-e8fa26d91f76.jpg?v=1770167716","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/corona-speaks-and-threatens-mt-attaf-9798276359335","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}