{"product_id":"winged-witnesses-9781496243423","title":"Winged Witnesses","description":"The voices in these poems have witnessed the microhistories of the atypical body, the unusual body, the enjambed body, the chronically ill body trying to navigate space and time, love and displacement. The poems are a force field for questions that are at once intense and gripping: When we embody life through disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent body-minds, how do we grapple with love, time, and consciousness? How does the chronically ill body navigate the monstrosities of trauma and displacement? The poems not only play around with the idea of body-minds but also center on embodiment as touchstones of description. They are alive to history and the way poetry's memorial practices animate the raw intimacy between the seen and unseen. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The people who populate Chisom Okafor's \u003ci\u003eWinged Witnesses\u003c\/i\u003e are broken by numerous afflictions and darknesses, but there is a common companionship that binds them, as in a loop. Their voices call out in the wild and their jaded feet drag through lonely pathways, where wild birds dust-bathe by the wayside. There is trauma in these poems, but also light and salvation, and everything that comes between. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChisom Okafor\u003c\/b\u003e, a Nigerian poet and clinical nutritionist, lives in Tuscaloosa, where he is studying for an MFA in creative writing at the University of Alabama. His poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eBeloit Poetry Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePrairie Schooner\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eRaven Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eHellebore\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNorth Dakota Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSalt Hill\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSand Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eAccount\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRattle\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51749454741778,"sku":"9781496243423","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e246f213-200b-477d-bc89-218dd152977f.jpg?v=1764086424","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/winged-witnesses-9781496243423","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}