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The New Black

The New Black - Paperback

by Evie Shockley
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Availability:In StockContributor:Evie ShockleySeries:Wesleyan PoetryPublish date:2012-03-15Pages:128
Language:EnglishPublisher:Wesleyan University PressISBN-13:9780819572875ISBN-10:081957287XUPC:9780819572875Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanBook Topic:African American & BlackAward:2012 Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award Winner - Poetry AwardSize:9.40 x 6.80 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC33XSMETG

A profound and uplifting meditation on the meanings of race and belonging in America

Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (2012)

Smart, grounded, and lyrical, Evie Shockley's the new black integrates powerful ideas about "blackness," past and present, through the medium of beautifully crafted verse. the new black sees our racial past inevitably shaping our contemporary moment, but struggles to...



Language:EnglishPublisher:Wesleyan University PressISBN-13:9780819572875ISBN-10:081957287XUPC:9780819572875Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanBook Topic:African American & BlackAward:2012 Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award Winner - Poetry AwardSize:9.40 x 6.80 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC33XSMETG

EVIE SHOCKLEY is an associate professor of English at Rutgers University and the author of a half-red sea, the chapbook The Gorgon Goddess, and Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry.


Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Awards

🏆 2012 Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award Winner - Poetry Award

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