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, Cyřee Jarelle Johnson charts the history of his family...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Nightboat Books,
[2024].
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| Summary: | 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, Cyřee 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 100 pages ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781643621944 1643621947 |