
If I Gather Here and Shout
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.- Kirjailija
- Funto Omojola
- ISBN
- 9781643622408
- Kieli
- englanti
- Paino
- 188 grammaa
- Julkaisupäivä
- 9.1.2025
- Kustantaja
- Nightboat Books
- Sivumäärä
- 88