Jillian Christmas
Author
Language
English
Description
In The Gospel of Breaking, Jillian Christmas confirms what followers of her performance and artistic curation have long known: there is magic in her words. Befitting someone who "speaks things into being," Christmas extracts from family history, queer lineage, and the political landscape of a racialized life to create a rich, softly defiant collection of poems.
Christmas draws a circle around the things she calls "holy": the family line that cannot...
Author
Publisher
Flamingo Rampant
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Pigeon Pea has a lot of questions about their family and ancestors one afternoon. Auntie entrusts them with a magic cowrie shell that whisks Pigeon Pea back in time and across oceans for a visit with their great-great-great-great-great-great grandmothers and others, including their orisha.
