{"product_id":"the-choreic-period-9781639551187","title":"The Choreic Period","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA ground-breaking collection of poems exploring disability, syntax, and rhythm from a Brooklyn-based Senegalese American writer with cerebral palsy. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eLatif Askia Ba—an acclaimed poet with Choreic Cerebral Palsy—honors all the things that arise from our unique choreographies. Meeting each reader with corporeal generosity, these poems create space to practice a radical reclamation of movement and the body. Together. In dialogue. In disability. At the bodega, in the examination room, on the move. “This way. My body looks like a dancing tattoo.” Here, the drum of the body punctuates thought in unexpected and invigorating time signatures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThese poems are percussive and syncopated, utilizing a polylingual braid of French, Spanish, Jamaican, Fulani, and Wolof, reminding the Anglophone reader: “I am not here to accommodate you\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eBecause these poems are not so much \u003ci\u003efor\u003c\/i\u003e you as they are \u003ci\u003ewith\u003c\/i\u003e you, an accompaniment rather than an accommodation, something to be rather than something to own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWith startling nuance, \u003ci\u003eThe Choreic Period\u003c\/i\u003e encourages us to “relinquish the things that we have. And mark the thing that we do,” all to see and sing the vital “thing that we be.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Latif Askia Ba","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48284514844923,"sku":"9781639551187","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781639551187_895b7ffb-28b9-4cf4-b1ad-906c5b20aa9d.jpg?v=1772485777","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-choreic-period-9781639551187","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}