Watchnight by Johnson, Cyree Jarelle

Watchnight (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781643621944)

Vendor: Cyree Jarelle Johnson
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Format: Paperback
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Watchnight by Johnson, Cyree Jarelle

Watchnight

$17.95
Watchnight by Johnson, Cyree Jarelle

Watchnight

$17.95
Format: Paperback
Description
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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, Cyr馥 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.

Author: Cyree Jarelle Johnson
ISBN-10: 1643621947
ISBN-13: 9781643621944
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Language: English
Published: 04/09/2024
Pages: 104
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.90w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/18/2024
By Cyree Jarelle Johnson
By Cyree Jarelle Johnson
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Cyr馥 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.

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