The Span Of A Small Forever

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780063319172 Author(s): April Gibson Format: Paperback Year: 2024 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc Pages: 144

Description: With echoes of Audre Lordeâs The Cancer Journals and Susan Sontagâs Illness as Metaphor, an extraordinary debut collection from a prize-winning poet that chronicles a Black womanâs 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. Gibson offers a unique perspective on âthe body,â viewing disability and healthcare through both feminist and socio-economic lenses filtered by race and faith. 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.  Gibson presents her body as a âlooking glassâ 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 âweâ in her. The Span of a Small Forever is both testimony and transformationâheart-shattering in its honesty, it ultimately offers us transcendent beauty, nourishment, and the strength we need to go on in our lives.

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