{"product_id":"watchnight-paperback","title":"Watchnight - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCyree Jarelle Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWATCHNIGHT\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003eIn 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, \u003ci\u003eWATCHNIGHT\u003c\/i\u003e is a study of Black bonds, Black grief, and Black flight.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCyrée Jarelle Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet from Piscataway, NJ. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eSLINGSHOT\u003c\/i\u003e (Nightboat Books, 2019), winner of a Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. Johnson was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and served as the inaugural Poet-In-Residence at the Brooklyn Public Library. His poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eApogee\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFoglifter\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWUSSY\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAtmos\u003c\/i\u003e among other publications. \u003ci\u003eWATCHNIGHT\u003c\/i\u003e, his forthcoming book of poetry, considers ancestry as history in the context of the Great Black Migration of the 20th century, familial estrangement, and queer family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.9 x 6.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 09, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42695471464511,"sku":"9781643621944","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/4617890b13b112c3396e3b89074a2260.webp?v=1765003912","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/watchnight-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}