Latif Askia Ba

The Choreic Period (eBook, ePUB)

Poems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A ground-breaking collection of poems exploring disability, syntax, and rhythm from a Brooklyn-based Senegalese American writer with cerebral palsy.

Latif Askia Baan acclaimed poet with Choreic Cerebral Palsyhonors 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. Because these poems are not so much for you as they are with you, an accompaniment rather than an accommodation, something to be rather than something to own.

With startling nuance, The Choreic Period 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Milkweed Editions
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781639551194
• Artikelnr.: 72352812

Autorenporträt

Latif Askia Ba is a poet with Choreic Cerebral Palsy from Brooklyn, New York. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University and was the Print Poetry Editor for the Columbia Journal's sixty-first issue. He is the author The Machine Code of a Bleeding Moon, and his work appears in Poetry Magazine and many other publications.

Inhaltsangabe

Choreic 
At Stop & Shop 
Syntax 
5 juillet 
3 octobre
8 juillet
28 avril 
20 janvier 
Djabote
22 septembre 
28 septembre
9 août
Alegre
Douglass Pool 
9 novembre
5 mars
At Stop & Shop 
7 avril 
Syntax 
12 février
3 juillet 
7 août 
Cratylus
Analysis
24 octobre
27 septembre
23 octobre 
2 mai 
24 juillet
4 novembre 
Syntax
5th & St. Marks 
Sequence 
6 février
28 mai 
Syntax 
10 juin 
18 février 
24 février 
Fingerlicked 
20 mars 
4 novembre
5 février 
6 mars 
Syntax 
27 octobre 
Analysis 
Aubade 
Foreword 
24 janvier 
Notes
Acknowledgments