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.
