The Mundane, the Sublime, and the Fantastical
The Mundane, the Sublime, and the Fantastical COVID meditations from literary phenom Otoniya J. In The Mundane, the Sublime, and the Fantastical, Bitek becomes a record keeper, observing this…
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The Mundane, the Sublime, and the Fantastical
COVID meditations from literary phenom Otoniya J. In The Mundane, the Sublime, and the Fantastical, Bitek becomes a record keeper, observing this contradictory relationship from inside the quagmire of pandemic days. Okot BitekThe relationship between the quotidian and the extraordinary is symbiotic: they defined each other.
The poems of The Mundane, the Sublime, and the Fantastical seek quietude, order, refuge, and space within that shroud. Rife with the paradoxical forces of boredom and intensity, the early days of COVID-19 passed under an inescapable pall. They remind us of community, connectedness, and what is inherently shared in a time of limited access and limitless grief.
Innovative and playful in form, the works in this collection are of the time, while remembering an existence outside the present. They juxtapose the sensational news stories of daily turmoil and