If I Gather Here and Shout Jackie Wang Part autobiography

Part autobiography

Het is een zachte dag vandaag

'Neighbor is a sweet saga of disconnection

finely judged and wrought work

a cry of pain

If I Gather Here and Shout Jackie Wang Part autobiographyFunto 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