{"product_id":"the-span-of-a-small-forever-poems-9780063319172","title":"The Span of a Small Forever: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith echoes of Audre Lorde's \u003cem\u003eThe Cancer Journals\u003c\/em\u003e and Susan Sontag's \u003cem\u003eIllness as Metaphor, \u003c\/em\u003ean extraordinary debut collection from a prize-winning poet that chronicles a Black woman's journey through disability, the byzantine healthcare system, life-giving, taking, and sacrifice.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGibson offers a unique perspective on \"the body,\" 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGibson presents her body as a \"looking glass\" 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 \"we\" in her. \u003cem\u003eThe Span of a Small Forever\u003c\/em\u003e is both testimony and transformation--heart-shattering in its honesty, it ultimately offers us transcendent beauty, nourishment, and the strength we need to go on in our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e April Gibson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Amistad Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/02\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780063319172\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGibson, April:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eApril Gibson is a poet, writer, and professor whose work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Rhino Poetry, Prairie Schooner\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. April has won The Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award and the Sustainable Arts Foundation Award. She has been awarded residencies from Write On, Door County and the Vermont Studio Center. She is a fellow of the Poetry Incubator (Poetry Foundation), the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, and The Watering Hole Poetry Retreat. April is also a Tin House and VONA Writing Workshop alum, and her research has received support from the National Endowment of the Humanities. She teaches in the Department of English, Literature, and Speech at Malcolm X College in Chicago.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amistad Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43778196471923,"sku":"9.78006E+12","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_ce9da0e2-2530-4d67-afbe-6ac4c831efc9.jpg?v=1757506423","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-span-of-a-small-forever-poems-9780063319172","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}