Zong! is NourbeSe Philip’s book length poem published by Weslyan University Press, and by The Mercury Press in Canada. This extended 182 page poetry cycle is composed entirely from the…

Zong! is NourbeSe Philip’s book length poem published by Weslyan University Press, and by The Mercury Press in Canada. This extended 182 page poetry cycle is composed entirely from the words of the case report, Gregson vs. Gilbert, related to the murder of Africans on board a slave ship at the end of the eighteenth century,