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In WATCHNIGHT, we accompany Johnson's unnamed protagonist on a psychedelic quest across myriad forms, places, and times marked by climate crisis, exodus, and Black trans identity-making. 

In exhilarating lyric poems and chiseled prose blocks, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson charts the history of his family alongside the history of Watchnighta churchy holiday of messianic tarryingand steps through portals to render the human faces of American internal migration and mass displacementfrom countryside to city and back again. Spanning from 1803 to a near-future rife with class tension and racial anxiety, WATCHNIGHT is a study of Black bonds, Black grief, and Black flight.

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      Publisher: Nightboat Books
      Publication Date: 1/23/2024
      ISBN13: 9781643621944, 978-1643621944
      ISBN10: 1643621947
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      Book Synopsis

      In WATCHNIGHT, we accompany Johnson's unnamed protagonist on a psychedelic quest across myriad forms, places, and times marked by climate crisis, exodus, and Black trans identity-making. 

      In exhilarating lyric poems and chiseled prose blocks, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson charts the history of his family alongside the history of Watchnighta churchy holiday of messianic tarryingand steps through portals to render the human faces of American internal migration and mass displacementfrom countryside to city and back again. Spanning from 1803 to a near-future rife with class tension and racial anxiety, WATCHNIGHT is a study of Black bonds, Black grief, and Black flight.

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