{"product_id":"9781643622408-if-i-gather-here-shout","title":"If I Gather Here and Shout","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54825236758902,"sku":"9781643622408","price":12.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_31531448.jpg?v=1733332603","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781643622408-if-i-gather-here-shout","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}