If I Gather Here and Shout Ryan Skrabalak the election of Pope John

the election of Pope John xxiii

' - Joyelle McSweeney

Nooit gestilde nieuwsgierigheid

many tricks

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If I Gather Here and Shout Ryan Skrabalak the election of Pope JohnFunto Omojola If I Gather Here and Shout summons Yoruba divinatory rituals into a hospital room. Incantatory verses accumulate alongside personal and historical figures of illness and death to illuminate the tensions between legibility and meaning making that emerge when an ill Black body is processed through a Western medical context. With intimate knowledge of how ancestral memory aches and sings in the body, Funto Omojola invokes a lamenting chorus