Cry: Seven Poems on COVID-19

Abstract

This section contains seven poems written by Chinese poets, writers, and scholars during the difficult times of the COVID-19 outbreak in China. They were the real-time inscriptions of the nation’s emotional trauma from the deadly pandemic that, unfortunately, has not been given an entirely open outlet even to this date. Most of these poems were written during home isolation, expressing the poets’ shock, sorrow, and indignation vis-à-vis the calamity, while a couple of them offer firsthand experiences from Wuhan, the original epicenter of the coronavirus.