{"product_id":"the-choreic-period","title":"The Choreic Period","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Choreic Period\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eLatif Askia Ba\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781639551187\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eMilkweed Editions\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2025\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e96\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\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\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.These 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.With 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\/body\u003e","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"The Choreic Period | Latif Askia Ba | Paperback | 9781639551187 | New | Poetry 1736221","offer_id":50881125253378,"sku":"1736221","price":32.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71sVgf6hfyL.jpg?v=1793059786","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/the-choreic-period","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}