Overview
With echoes of Audre Lordeās The Cancer Journals and Susan Sontagās Illness as Metaphor, an extraordinary debut collection from a prize-winning poet that chronicles a Black womanās journey through disability, the byzantine healthcare system, life-giving, taking, and sacrifice.
With breathtaking lyricism and a vulnerability that pierces the heart, April Gibson journeys through the emotional abysses, the daily pleasures, the frustrations, and the joys of being a Black woman living with chronic illness.Ā
Gibson offers a unique perspective on āthe body,ā viewing disability and healthcare through both feminist and socio-economic lenses filtered by race and faith.Ā Through gorgeous sensory language that migrates memories, from carefree innocence to the ravages formed in its absence, Gibson bears witness to grief, courage, and resistance to redefine herself on her own terms.Ā Ā
Gibson presents her body as a ālooking glassā that re-envisions illness, womanhood, motherhood, religious relics and collective loss through her physicality, through her lamenting, through her unearthing, reckoning and rebirth. Not only do we see her, but see the āweā in her.Ā The Span of a Small ForeverĀ is both testimony and transformationāheart-shattering in its honesty, it ultimately offers us transcendent beauty, nourishment, and the strength we need to go on in our lives.
This book title, The Span of a Small Forever (Poems), ISBN: 9780063319172, by April Gibson, published by HarperCollins (April 2, 2024) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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