The Span of a Small Forever Poems

Informationen zum Autor April Gibson is a poet, writer, and professor whose work has appeared in  The Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Rhino Poetry, Prairie Schooner , and elsewhere. April has won The Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award and the Sustainable Arts Foundation Award. She has been awarded residencies from Write On, Door County and the Vermont Studio Center. She is a fellow of the Poetry Incubator (Poetry Foundation), the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, and The Watering Hole Poetry Retreat. April is also a Tin House and VONA Writing Workshop alum, and her research has received support from the National Endowment of the Humanities. She teaches in the Department of English, Literature, and Speech at Malcolm X College in Chicago. Klappentext With echoes of Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals and Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor, an extraordinary debut collection from a prize-winning poet that chronicles a Black woman's journey through disability, the byzantine healthcare system, life-giving, taking, and sacrifice. With breathtaking lyricism and a vulnerability that pierces the heart, April Gibson journeys through the emotional abysses, the daily pleasures, the frustrations, and the joys of being a Black woman living with chronic illness.  Gibson offers a unique perspective on "the body," viewing disability and healthcare through both feminist and socio-economic lenses filtered by race and faith. Through gorgeous sensory language that migrates memories, from carefree innocence to the ravages formed in its absence, Gibson bears witness to grief, courage, and resistance to redefine herself on her own terms.   Gibson presents her body as a "looking glass" that re-envisions illness, womanhood, motherhood, religious relics and collective loss through her physicality, through her lamenting, through her unearthing, reckoning and rebirth. Not only do we see her, but see the "we" in her. The Span of a Small Forever is both testimony and transformation-heart-shattering in its honesty, it ultimately offers us transcendent beauty, nourishment, and the strength we need to go on in our lives. How does a body bear the unbearable and find the strength to go on? Chronic Illness Poetry: An unflinching poetic account of living with Crohn's disease, from misdiagnosis and medical trauma to the daily realities of life with an autoimmune condition. Black Womanhood: A powerful exploration of navigating the healthcare system, family, and faith as a Black woman on the South Side of Chicago. Motherhood and Family: Tender and raw verses on raising sons, grappling with family history, and redefining the self in the face of profound change. Body Image and Identity: A courageous testimony that confronts scars, shame, and the journey toward reclaiming one's own body on one's own terms. Zusammenfassung With echoes of Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals and Susan Sontag’s Illness as Metaphor, an extraordinary debut collection from a prize-winning poet that chronicles a Black woman’s journey through disability, the byzantine healthcare system, life-giving, taking, and sacrifice. With breathtaking lyricism and a vulnerability that pierces the heart, April Gibson journeys through the emotional abysses, the daily pleasures, the frustrations, and the joys of being a Black woman living with chronic illness.  Gibson offers a unique perspective on “the body,” viewing disability and healthcare through both feminist and socio-economic lenses filtered by race and faith. Through gorgeous sensory language that migrates memories, from carefree innocence to the ravages formed in its absence, Gibson bears witness to grief, courage, and resistance to redefine herself on her own terms.   Gibson presents her body as a “looking glass” that re-envisions illness, womanhood, motherhood, religious...

Product details

• Authors: April Gibson
• Publisher: Amistad
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 06.03.2024
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama
• EAN: 9780063319172
• ISBN: 978-0-06-331917-2
• Pages: 144
• Dimensions (packing): 12.7 x 20.3 x 0.8 cm
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