{"product_id":"9781643622408","title":"If I Gather Here and Shout","description":"\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003eIf I Gather Here and Shout\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esummons 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Funto Omojola","offers":[{"title":"Nightboat Books |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2024-11-22","offer_id":45663913279743,"sku":"9781643622408","price":27.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/9781643622408.jpg?v=1718224076","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781643622408","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}