If I Gather Here and Shout Ryan Skrabalak Judith Kiros's O

Judith Kiros's O

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Her poetry questions what kind of future we might create

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If I Gather Here and Shout Ryan Skrabalak Judith Kiros's OFunto Omojola If I Gather Here and Shout summons Yoruba divinatory rituals into a hospital room. Incantatory verses accumulate alongside personal and historical figures of illness and death to illuminate the tensions between legibility and meaning making that emerge when an ill Black body is processed through a Western medical context. With intimate knowledge of how ancestral memory aches and sings in the body, Funto Omojola invokes a lamenting chorus