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Chamorrita Song
About this book
For poet and spoken-word artist Danielle P. Williams, Kantan Chamorrita is more than just the ancient craft of Chamorro folk song. It is also a return and a homecoming. This impromptu style of communal call-and response performance art forms the spokes for Williams's debut collection.
Rooted in oral tradition, Chamorrita Song pays homage to Black and Chamorro cultures, honoring the artistic expressions that these communities have created to reconcile lifetimes of imposed trauma. Bearing witness to these many narratives, Williams intertwines spoken word poetry and gospel music with Chamorro storytelling, weaving together the nuanced histories of queer, Black, and Indigenous existence and literature.
Here Williams reveals capacious contemporary forms that speak to the future as well as to the past and that further ground lineages in homelands, finding strength and beauty in collective pain and triumph. These poems transform and spread the messages of those long silenced. They act as song and prayer.
Rooted in oral tradition, Chamorrita Song pays homage to Black and Chamorro cultures, honoring the artistic expressions that these communities have created to reconcile lifetimes of imposed trauma. Bearing witness to these many narratives, Williams intertwines spoken word poetry and gospel music with Chamorro storytelling, weaving together the nuanced histories of queer, Black, and Indigenous existence and literature.
Here Williams reveals capacious contemporary forms that speak to the future as well as to the past and that further ground lineages in homelands, finding strength and beauty in collective pain and triumph. These poems transform and spread the messages of those long silenced. They act as song and prayer.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Whenever I tell this story
- The Valley of the Latte
- Kantan Chamorrita
- black body as [ ]bird
- the fa’ñague in america
- Chamorrita Song
- gospel
- competing with myself
- for hiding love from others
- fa’ñague /fuh-nyah-gwee/
- When people tell me that dancing hula makes you exotic
- Chamorrita Song
- Steal Away
- creation myth
- for fishing
- Crystal Stair
- When people ask me what I am instead of who
- for daughters
- for places we’ve never been but dream of going to once we die
- \\ returning \\
- creation myth
- for mothers
- for mothers pt. 2
- Steal Away
- anyone who does not know love is still in death
- When people don’t care to learn the difference between us
- Tano I’ Man Chamorro
- for the chains I break free from
- Bear in mind that death is a drum
- for the children talking to us in heaven
- devotional
- Deep River
- god / gäd /
- Sugar King Park, Saipan
- Chamorrita Song
- for the children who rot away, slowly
- Yutu 2018
- for all the time that has gone by
- Deep River
- Black Music
- Chamorrita Song
- All the Ocean
- for what’s felt in the body
- Chamorrita Song
- When we talk about dreaming
- A Note from the Author
- Acknowledgments
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