Cyree Jarelle Johnson: Watchnight, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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WINNER OF THE JAMES LAUGHLIN AWARD WINNER OF THE KENNY FRIES DISABLED WRITER LITERARY AWARD In WATCHNIGHT, we accompany Johnson's unnamed protagonist on a psychedelic quest across myriad forms, places, and times marked by climate crisis, exodus, and Black trans identity-making.

In exhilarating lyric poems and chiseled prose blocks, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson charts the history of his family alongside the history of Watchnight---a churchy holiday of messianic tarrying---and steps through portals to render the human faces of American internal migration and mass displacement---from countryside to city and back again. Spanning from 1803 to a near-future rife with class tension and racial anxiety, WATCHNIGHT is a study of Black bonds, Black grief, and Black flight.