If I Gather Here and Shout Punks 'April is not always the

'April is not always the cruelest month

Rebecca May Johnson

This striking book continues Adnan’s meditative observation and inquiry into the experiences of her remarkable life

Unease is exported to furniture

geographies of longing

If I Gather Here and Shout Punks 'April is not always theFunto 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