The Gospel of Breaking - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Arsenal Pulp PressISBN-13:9781551527970ISBN-10:1551527979UPC:9781551527970Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:LGBTQ+, American, Women AuthorsBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:7.70 x 5.90 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCA952DRQ5
In The Gospel of Breaking, Jillian Christmas confirms what followers of her performance and artistic curation have long known: there is magic in her words. Befitting someone who "speaks things into being," Christmas extracts from family history, queer lineage, and the political landscape of a racialized life to create a rich, softly defiant collection of poems.
Christmas draws a circle around the things she calls "holy" the family line that cannot find its root but survived to fill the skies with radiant flesh; the body, broken and unbroken and broken and new again; the lover lost, the friend lost, and the loss itself; and the hands that hold them all with brilliant, tender care. Expansive and beautiful, these poems allow readers to swim in Jillian Christmas's mother-tongue and to dream at her shores.
Christmas draws a circle around the things she calls "holy" the family line that cannot find its root but survived to fill the skies with radiant flesh; the body, broken and unbroken and broken and new again; the lover lost, the friend lost, and the loss itself; and the hands that hold them all with brilliant, tender care. Expansive and beautiful, these poems allow readers to swim in Jillian Christmas's mother-tongue and to dream at her shores.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Arsenal Pulp PressISBN-13:9781551527970ISBN-10:1551527979UPC:9781551527970Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:LGBTQ+, American, Women AuthorsBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:7.70 x 5.90 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCA952DRQ5
Jillian Christmas is the former Artistic Director of Vancouver's Verses Festival of Words. An educator, organizer, and advocate in the arts community, utilizing an anti-oppressive lens, Jillian has performed and facilitated workshops across North America.
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