{"product_id":"the-choreic-period-latif-askia-ba-9781639551187","title":"The Choreic Period: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eA ground-breaking collection of poems exploring disability, syntax, and rhythm from a Brooklyn-based Senegalese American writer with cerebral palsy. \u003c\/b\u003eLatif Askia Ba--an acclaimed poet with Choreic Cerebral Palsy--honors all the things that arise from our unique choreographies. Meeting each reader with corporeal generosity, these poems create space to practice a radical reclamation of movement and the body. Together. In dialogue. In disability. At the bodega, in the examination room, on the move. \"This way. My body looks like a dancing tattoo.\" Here, the drum of the body punctuates thought in unexpected and invigorating time signatures.These poems are percussive and syncopated, utilizing a polylingual braid of French, Spanish, Jamaican, Fulani, and Wolof, reminding the Anglophone reader: \"I am not here to accommodate you\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eBecause these poems are not so much \u003ci\u003efor\u003c\/i\u003e you as they are \u003ci\u003ewith\u003c\/i\u003e you, an accompaniment rather than an accommodation, something to be rather than something to own.With startling nuance, \u003ci\u003eThe Choreic Period\u003c\/i\u003e encourages us to \"relinquish the things that we have. And mark the thing that we do,\" all to see and sing the vital \"thing that we be.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Latif Askia Ba\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1639551182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639551187\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/21\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Latif Askia Ba","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45981033398527,"sku":"9781639551187","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_13d419d5-eb04-41dc-bfdd-d7b23b56c42b.jpg?v=1722417546","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-choreic-period-latif-askia-ba-9781639551187","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}