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ISBN-13: | 9780819572875 |
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Publisher: | Wesleyan University Press |
Publication date: | 01/25/2012 |
Series: | Wesleyan Poetry Series |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 128 |
Sales rank: | 391,960 |
Product dimensions: | 7.00(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.40(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
my last modernist poem, # 4 (or, re-re-birth of a nation)OUT WITH THE OLDmy life as chinafrom The Lost Letters of Frederick Douglasscelestialmesostics from the american grammar bookstatistical haiku (or, how do they discount us? let me count the ways)good night women (or, defying the carcinogenic pen)her tin skinpink-think (a primer for girls of other colors)clare's songa sonnet for stanley tookie williamsin a non-subjunctive moodwhere's carolina?x marks the spotreceived in springthe defense of marriage act, alternatives todependencieshim/body/meant, her/body/meantwhere you are planteda background in musicode to my blacknessTHE COLDto see the minuslove life, with stitchesrivennever aftera matter of balanceon new year's evethe coldOUT WITH THE NEWowed to shirley chisholm :bop for presidential politics, c. 2008getting around utopiayou can't deny itwomanishduck, duck, reduxbecause there should be loveimproper(ty) behaviorat the musée de l'hommea question of survivalsoundtrack for a generational shiftrevisitingher table mountainnotes to my nieces (or, essays in fortune-telling)coming of agego-go tarotquiet as it's kepttonight i sawsalty (extended play)explosives(mis)takes one to know onepost-whiteTHE FARE-WELL LETTERSthe fare-well lettersdear ace bandagedear cuddly dharmadear existential fallacydear gift horsedear ink jetdear kerosene lampdear mid-afternoon napdear opaque policydear quaalude residuedear safety testdear untimely violetdear white xmasdear yesterday's zeroNotesAcknowledgmentsWhat People are Saying About This
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"Evie Shockley's the new black is our contemporary passage through a mosaic of historical and literary constructions. This stunning collection remembers all that has moved through the black body to bring us into the 21st century; and not since Jean Toomer's Cane has the black female body in particular been portrayed with such compassion and love. This formally inventive work makes signifyin' its casting call, as Shockley becomes the master composer of genealogies."—Claudia Rankine, author of Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
"In these remarkable new poems Evie Shockley seems to step to us wearing an alluring silk gown and steel-toe guerilla boots! She possesses that rare combination of grace and subversiveness. As a poem like 'x marks the spot' demonstrates, she elegantly wrestles with/against staid notions of culture, identity and influence. Her synthesis of poetic styles (the sonnet, the epistle, the tarot, the diagram) produces a poetry that is recognizable and strange, engaging and revolutionary. the new black is a book of stunning urgency and invention.""—Terrance Hayes, author of Lighthead
"Evie Shockley's the new black is our contemporary passage through a mosaic of historical and literary constructions. This stunning collection remembers all that has moved through the black body to bring us into the 21st century; and not since Jean Toomer's Cane has the black female body in particular been portrayed with such compassion and love. This formally inventive work makes signifyin' its casting call, as Shockley becomes the master composer of genealogies."—Claudia Rankine, author of Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
“In these remarkable new poems Evie Shockley seems to step to us wearing an alluring silk gown and steel-toe guerilla boots! She possesses that rare combination of grace and subversiveness. As a poem like ‘x marks the spot’ demonstrates, she elegantly wrestles with/against staid notions of culture, identity and influence. Her synthesis of poetic styles (the sonnet, the epistle, the tarot, the diagram) produces a poetry that is recognizable and strange, engaging and revolutionary. the new black is a book of stunning urgency and invention.”