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 Omojola
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Published: 11/26/2024
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.70w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781643622408