Watchnight

In WATCHNIGHT, we accompany Johnson's unnamed protagonist on a psychedelic quest across myriad forms, places, and times marked by climate crisis, exodus, and Black trans identity-making. In exhilarating lyric poems and chiseled prose blocks, Cyr馥 Jarelle Johnson charts the history of his family alongside the history of Watchnight--a churchy holiday of messianic tarrying--and steps through portals to render the human faces of American internal migration and mass displacement--from countryside to city and back again. Spanning from 1803 to a near-future rife with class tension and racial anxiety, WATCHNIGHT is a study of Black bonds, Black grief, and Black flight.

Author: Cyree Jarelle Johnson
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Published: 04/09/2024
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781643621944