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Title Statement | The gospel of breaking / Jillian Christmas. |
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Author | Christmas, Jillian, 1983- |
Publication | Vancouver, BC: Arsenal Pulp Press,[2020]©2020 |
Extent of Item | 103 pages ; |
ISBN | 1551527979 (pbk.) 9781551527970 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 3750255 |
General Notes | Poems. |
Summary | "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 find its root but survived to fill the skies with radiant flesh; the body, broken and unbroken and broken and new again; the lover lost, the friend lost, and the loss itself; and the hands that hold them all with brilliant, tender care. Expansive and beautiful, these poems allow readers to swim in Jillian Christmas's mother-tongue and to dream at her shores."--Provided by publisher. |