{"product_id":"the-choreic-period-poems-9781639551187","title":"The Choreic Period: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eA ground-breaking collection of poems exploring disability, syntax, and rhythm from a Brooklyn-based Senegalese American writer with cerebral palsy. \u003c\/b\u003eLatif Askia Ba--an acclaimed poet with Choreic Cerebral Palsy--honors all the things that arise from our unique choreographies. Meeting each reader with corporeal generosity, these poems create space to practice a radical reclamation of movement and the body. Together. In dialogue. In disability. At the bodega, in the examination room, on the move. \"This way. My body looks like a dancing tattoo.\" Here, the drum of the body punctuates thought in unexpected and invigorating time signatures.These poems are percussive and syncopated, utilizing a polylingual braid of French, Spanish, Jamaican, Fulani, and Wolof, reminding the Anglophone reader: \"I am not here to accommodate you\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eBecause these poems are not so much \u003ci\u003efor\u003c\/i\u003e you as they are \u003ci\u003ewith\u003c\/i\u003e you, an accompaniment rather than an accommodation, something to be rather than something to own.With startling nuance, \u003ci\u003eThe Choreic Period\u003c\/i\u003e encourages us to \"relinquish the things that we have. And mark the thing that we do,\" all to see and sing the vital \"thing that we be.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLatif Askia Ba\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet with Choreic Cerebral Palsy from Brooklyn, New York. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University and was the Print Poetry Editor for the \u003ci\u003eColumbia Journal\u003c\/i\u003e's sixty-first issue. He is the author \u003ci\u003eThe Machine Code of a Bleeding Moon\u003c\/i\u003e, and his work appears in \u003ci\u003ePoetry Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e and many other publications.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51186254741778,"sku":"9781639551187","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1913a459-3bb2-4995-9197-2bccc230f0be.jpg?v=1744618561","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-choreic-period-poems-9781639551187","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}