If I gather here and shout /

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...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Omojola, Funto (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English Yoruba
Language Notes:	English with one page in Yoruba.
Published:	New York : Nightboat Books, 2024.
Subjects:	Yoruba (African people) > Poetry. Spirituality > Poetry.