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Watchnight - Paperback

by Cyree Jarelle Johnson
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Availability:In StockContributor:Cyree Jarelle JohnsonPublish date:2024-04-09Pages:104
Language:EnglishPublisher:Nightboat BooksISBN-13:9781643621944ISBN-10:1643621947UPC:9781643621944Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & Themes, LGBTQ+Book Topic:African American & Black, Death, Grief, LossSize:8.90 x 6.90 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCPW7P0CSH
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Nightboat BooksISBN-13:9781643621944ISBN-10:1643621947UPC:9781643621944Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & Themes, LGBTQ+Book Topic:African American & Black, Death, Grief, LossSize:8.90 x 6.90 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCPW7P0CSH
Cyrée Jarelle Johnson is a poet from Piscataway, NJ. He is the author of SLINGSHOT (Nightboat Books, 2019), winner of a Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. Johnson was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and served as the inaugural Poet-In-Residence at the Brooklyn Public Library. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Apogee, Foglifter, WUSSY, and Atmos among other publications. WATCHNIGHT, his forthcoming book of poetry, considers ancestry as history in the context of the Great Black Migration of the 20th century, familial estrangement, and queer family.
Publisher: Nightboat Books

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