The new black / Evie Shockley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shockley, Evie, 1965-

Series:

Wesleyan poetry.

Wesleyan poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Poetry.

African Americans.

Shockley, Evie, 1965-.

Shockley, Evie.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (121 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Cover; Contents; my last modernist poem, #4 (or, re-re-birth of a nation); out with the old; my life as china; from The Lost Letters of Frederick Douglass; celestial; mesostics from the american grammar book; statistical haiku (or, how do they discount us? let me count the ways); good night women (or, defying the carcinogenic pen); her tin skin; pink-think (a primer for girls of other colors); clare's song; a sonnet for stanley tookie williams; in a non-subjunctive mood; where's carolina?; x marks the spot; received in spring; the defense of marriage act, alternatives to; dependencies

him/body/meant, her/body/meantwhere you are planted; a background in music; ode to my blackness; the cold; to see the minus; love life, with stitches; riven; never after; a matter of balance; on new year's eve; the cold; out with the new; owed to shirley chisholm; bop for presidential politics, c. 2008; getting around utopia; you can't deny it; womanish; duck, duck, redux; because there should be love; improper(ty) behavior; at the musée de l'homme; a question of survival; soundtrack for a generational shift; revisiting; her table mountain; notes to my nieces (or, essays in fortune-telling)

coming of agego-go tarot; quiet as it's kept; tonight i saw; salty (extended play); explosives; (mis)takes one to know one; post-white; the fare-well letters; the fare-well letters; dear ace bandage; dear cuddly dharma; dear existential fallacy; dear gift horse; dear ink jet; dear kerosene lamp; dear mid-afternoon nap; dear opaque policy; dear quaalude residue; dear safety test; dear untimely violet; dear white xmas; dear yesterday's zero; NOTES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786613521507

9781280117213

1280117214

9780819572882

0819572888

OCLC:

779828963