If I Gather Here and Shout
Funto Omojola
Belletristik / Lyrik, Dramatik
Beschreibung
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.
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cosmology, Christian belief systems, prose poetry, divination, folklore, ritual, ancestry, death, hybrid-genre, bodies, improvisation, visioning, Babalawo, chronic illness, gender, spellcasting, West African folkloric systems of belief, family, hospitals, Yoruba, non-linearity, Western medical understandings of the black body, Experimental, Ifá, illness, ceremony