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Availability:In StockContributor:Evie ShockleySeries:Wesleyan PoetryPublish date:2018-06-05Pages:104
Language:EnglishPublisher:Wesleyan University PressISBN-13:9780819577443ISBN-10:819577448UPC:9780819577443Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & Themes, Women AuthorsBook Topic:African American & Black, Death, Grief, LossSize:9.40 x 7.00 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.6107Product ID:SC1GTF0W3T

Poetry that acts as a fierce and loving resistance to violence

Art can't shield our bodies or stabilize the earth's climate, but Evie Shockley's semiautomatic insists that it can feed the spirit and reawaken the imagination. The volume responds primarily to the twenty-first century's inescapable evidence of the terms of black life--not so much new as newly visible. The poems trace a whole web of connections between the kinds of violence that affect people across the racial, ethnic, gender, class, sexual, national, and linguistic boundaries that do and do not divide us. How do we protect our humanity, our ability to feel deeply and think freely, in the face of a seemingly endless onslaught of physical, social, and environmental abuses? Where do we find language to describe, process, and check the attacks and injuries we see and suffer? What actions can break us out of the soul-numbing cycle of emotions, moving through outrage, mourning, and despair, again and again? In poems that span fragment to narrative and quiz to constraint, from procedure to prose and sequence to song, semiautomatic culls past and present for guides to a hoped-for future.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Wesleyan University PressISBN-13:9780819577443ISBN-10:819577448UPC:9780819577443Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & Themes, Women AuthorsBook Topic:African American & Black, Death, Grief, LossSize:9.40 x 7.00 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.6107Product ID:SC1GTF0W3T

EVIE SHOCKLEY is the author of several collections of poetry, including a half-red sea and the new black. She has won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry, the Holmes National Poetry Prize, and fellowships from Cave Canem, MacDowell, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library. She currently is an associate professor of English at Rutgers University New Brunswick.


Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

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Evie Shockley

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