{"product_id":"if-i-gather-here-and-shout-9781643622408","title":"If I Gather Here and Shout","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFunto Omojola\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePigeon Pages\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eGhost Proposal\u003c\/em\u003e, among others. \u003cem\u003eIf I Gather Here and Shout\u003c\/em\u003e is Omojola's book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Nightboat Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50893866041618,"sku":"9781643622408","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_dfed35f7-6ae5-4e86-aba6-ccc11f07b93b.jpg?v=1738240496","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/if-i-gather-here-and-shout-9781643622408","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}