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WATCHNIGHT
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.
104 pages, Paperback
First published February 27, 2024
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February 12, 2024
this book made me fall into a trance
(the poet gets 5 extra points for being from my hometown)
(the poet gets 5 extra points for being from my hometown)
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