A01=Funto Omojola
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ceremony
Christian belief systems
chronic illness
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divination
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Experimental
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illness
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prose poetry
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ritual
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spellcasting
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West African folkloric systems of belief
Western medical understandings of the black body
Yoruba
Product details
- ISBN 9781643622408
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 09 Jan 2025
- Publisher: Nightboat Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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.Funto Omojola is a poet, performer, and visual artist. They have received fellowships from MacDowell, Cave Canem, and the Poetry Project, and their work has been published in the Boston Review, Pigeon Pages, and Ghost Proposal, among others. If I Gather Here and Shout is Omojola’s book.
