The Gospel of Breaking
Overview
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.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781551527970
- ISBN-10: 1551527979
- Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
- Publish Date: March 2020
- Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.9 x 0.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.3 pounds
- Page Count: 80
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