The Gospel of Breaking

By Jillian Christmas

Book Overview

In The Gospel of Breaking , Jillian Christmas confirms what followers of her performance and artistic curation have long known: there is magic in her words. Befitting someone who "speaks things into being," Christmas extracts from family history, queer lineage, and the political landscape of a racialized life to create a rich, softly defiant collection of poems. Christmas draws a circle around the things she calls "holy" the family line that cannot find its root but survived to fill the skies with radiant flesh; the body, broken and unbroken and broken and new again; the lover lost, the friend lost, and the loss itself; and the hands that hold them all with brilliant, tender care. Expansive and beautiful, these poems allow readers to swim in Jillian Christmas's mother-tongue and to dream at her shores.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551527979
• ISBN13: 9781551527970
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 7.7"