Description
| Product ID: | 9781643621944 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | WATCHNIGHT |
| Authors: | Author: Cyree Jarelle Johnson |
| Page Count: | 104 |
| Subjects: | Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets, Gender studies: ‘trans’, transgender people and gender variance, Ethnic studies, Gender studies: transsexuals & hermaphroditism, Black & Asian studies |
| Description: | In WATCHNIGHT, we accompany Johnson’s unnamed protagonist on a psychedelic quest across myriad forms, places, and times marked by climate crisis, exodus, and Black trans identity-making. In exhilarating lyric poems and chiseled prose blocks, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson charts the history of his family alongside the history of Watchnight—a churchy holiday of messianic tarrying—and steps through portals to render the human faces of American internal migration and mass displacement—from countryside to city and back again. Spanning from 1803 to a near-future rife with class tension and racial anxiety, WATCHNIGHT is a study of Black bonds, Black grief, and Black flight. In WATCHNIGHT, we accompany Johnson’s unnamed protagonist on a psychedelic quest across myriad forms, places, and times marked by climate crisis, exodus, and Black trans identity-making. In exhilarating lyric poems and chiseled prose blocks, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson charts the history of his family alongside the history of Watchnight—a churchy holiday of messianic tarrying—and steps through portals to render the human faces of American internal migration and mass displacement—from countryside to city and back again. Spanning from 1803 to a near-future rife with class tension and racial anxiety, WATCHNIGHT is a study of Black bonds, Black grief, and Black flight. |
| Imprint Name: | Nightboat Books |
| Publisher Name: | Nightboat Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-05-23 |