Publisher's Synopsis
Kemi Alabi's debut reimagines the poetic and cultural traditions from which it is born, troubling the waters of some of our country's central and ordained fictions - those mythic politics of respectability, resilience, and redemption. Instead of turning to a salvation that has been forced upon them, Alabi turns to the body and the earth as sites of paradise defined by the pleasure and possibility of Black, queer fugitivity. Through tender love poems, righteous prayers, and vital provocations, we see the colonizers we carry within ourselves being laid to rest.
