A book with a hole in it Michael Tedja 'Funto Omojola’s If I Gather

'Funto Omojola’s If I Gather Here and Shout is a startling

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‘It seems wrong / to curl now within the confines / of a poem

Everything is in flux—including the dream-like landscapes at the borders of borders—as the poet seeks to recover parts of self and memory

Filled with wit

A book with a hole in it Michael Tedja 'Funto Omojola’s If I GatherKamelya Omayma Youssef Kamelya Omayma Youssefs A book with a hole in it uses the poetry of the fragment and the language of everyday survival to gesture towards the fallibility of language at the juncture of the multiple, intersecting wars on women, on "terror," on the non White body, and on people and language in diaspora. Drawn from a set of journals written over a four month period, A book with a hole in it throws the formal, official work of