{"product_id":"if-i-gather-here-and-shout","title":"If I Gather Here and Shout","description":"\u003ch1\u003eIf I Gather Here and Shout\u003c\/h1\u003eFunto Omojola\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Nightboat Books\u003cbr\u003eNovember 26 2024\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9781643622408\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 1643622404\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eItems marked as \u003cb\u003eWAREHOUSE\u003c\/b\u003e may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \u003cb\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\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eIf I Gather Here and Shout\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44069276188717,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_91eb97f4-94be-4207-9f8e-862153247235.jpg?v=1760952139","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/if-i-gather-here-and-shout","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}