Watchnight

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, Cyr馥 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.

Author: Cyree Jarelle Johnson
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Published: 04/09/2024
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781643621944
Language: English