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If I Gather Here and Shout
by If I Gather Here and Shout
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A deft, musical debut poetry collection about the disabling effects of illness, rupture, and inheritance--informed both by Yoruba divinatory systems and violent Western medical understandings of the Black body. If I Gather Here and Shout summons Yoruba divinatory rituals into a hospital room. Incantatory verses accumulate alongside personal and historical "figures" of illness and death to illuminate the tensions between legibility and meaning-making that emerge when an ill Black body is processed through a Western medical context. With intimate knowledge of how ancestral memory aches and sings in the body, Funto Omojola invokes a lamenting chorus in the ceremony of survival.
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- Nightboat Books Brand
- Nov 26, 2024 Pub Date:
- 9781643622408 ISBN-13:
- 1643622404 ISBN-10:
- English Language
- 8.9 in * 0.4 in * 5.7 in Dimensions:
- 0 lb Weight:
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