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.Author: Funto OmojolaPublisher: Nightboat BooksPublished: 11/26/2024Pages: 88Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.70w x 0.40dISBN: 9781643622408About the AuthorFunto Omojola is a poet, performer, and visual artist. They have done projects with Dia Chelsea, the Poetry Project, Solomon R. Guggenheim M