{"product_id":"septet-for-the-luminous-ones-9780819500939","title":"Septet for the Luminous Ones","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Black poet performs a shamanic soul retrieval of the seven-hundred-year-old diasporic black arts tradition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContinuing her search for a neotropical mythos, in this brilliant second collection poet fahima ife articulates various scenes of subduction. Spoken in quiet recognition and grounded in desire, \u003ci\u003e Septet for the Luminous Ones \u003c\/i\u003eimagines a lush soundscape textured in oblique spiritual fusion of the Taíno and Yoruba. Or, what it sounded like coming together for the first time, and what it sounds like ever after--breathless, diaspora calling. Similar to the incidents in \u003ci\u003eMaroon Choreography\u003c\/i\u003e, what resounds in these poems is an ecstatic love song of the Caribbean Americas, of the main lands and islands, shaped and reshaped as breathwork, ritual, communion, and fantasy. In essence, the collection speaks to raise the vibrational frequencies of all species on Earth through a sensual pulse of Black English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Alchemical Sirens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eit flickers in \u003cbr\u003ebalsamic appeal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003emoist in the palms of our hands\u003cbr\u003ea psalm a lamp a sap in our laps\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ean asp\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eplausible love song after love poems\u003cbr\u003ewere last put on hold\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eas in b l a ck a r t\u003cbr\u003ethe new black art is this --\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e find the lost soul and love it\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003efahima ife is associate professor of Black Aesthetics and Poetics in the department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California Santa Cruz. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eMaroon Choreography\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wesleyan University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50651853160722,"sku":"9780819500939","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2ec905e4-604f-47dc-b24b-c06706c830b9.jpg?v=1733311072","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/septet-for-the-luminous-ones-9780819500939","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}