{"product_id":"choreic-period","title":"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":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57195609391486,"sku":"NW9781639551187","price":12.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781639551187.jpg?v=1778539583","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/choreic-period","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}