The concluding volume in a poetic trilogy, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's
Dub: Finding Ceremony takes inspiration from theorist Sylvia
Wynter, dub poetry, and ocean life to offer a catalog of possible
methods for remembering, healing, listening, and living otherwise. In
these prose poems, Gumbs channels the voices of her ancestors,
including whales, coral, and oceanic bacteria, to tell stories of
diaspora, indigeneity, migration, blackness, genius, mothering,
grief, and harm. Tracing the origins of colonialism, genocide, and
slavery as they converge in Black feminist practice, Gumbs explores
the potential for the poetic and narrative undoing of the knowledge
that underpins the concept of Western humanity. Throughout, she
reminds us that dominant modes of being human and the oppression
those modes create can be challenged, and that it is possible to make
ourselves and our planet anew.