Semiautomatic / Evie Shockley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shockley, Evie, 1965- author.

Series:

Wesleyan poetry

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

110 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2017]

Summary:

"Poetry by Evie Shockley, critiquing daily life as well as responding to race- and gender-based violence"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

I. o the times

weather or not

the way we live now

buried truths

what's not to liken?

playing with fire

mirror and canvas

if a junco

banking on amnesia

a one-act play

in a no-win zone

corrective rape (or, i'm here to help)

Sex Trafficking Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in the USA (or, The Nation's Plague in Plain Sight)

ii. the topsy suite

studies in antebellum literature (or, topsy-turvy)

topsy's notes on taxonomy

topsy talks about her role

from topsy in wonderland

"now, reader ..."

iii. refrain

a-lyrical ballad (or, how america reminds us of the value of family)

keep your eye on

haibun for a parasitic pre-apocalyptic blues

sore score

in the california mountains, far from shelby / county, alabama and even farther from / the supreme court building, the black poet / seeks the low-down from a kindred entity

i declare war

acrobatic

song in the back yard

legend

legit-i-mate

improphised

cogito ergo loquor

philosophically immune

'the people want the regime to fall'

a dark scrawl

fukushima blues

jim crow stole my father's wings

supply and demand

"stop : meet with me here ..."

iv. blues modality

preface to a twenty-first-century survival guide

senzo

lotto motto

to be continued blues

of speech

the obsolete army

truth in advertising

upon this plot

how long has this jayne been gone?

du bois in ghana

cosmography

circe / odysseus / black odysseys (a remix-collage).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Hurston/Wright Legacy Award - Poetry, Winner, 2018

Other Format:

Online version: Shockley, Evie, 1965- Semiautomatic.

ISBN:

9780819577436

081957743X

9780819577443

0819577448

OCLC:

970641592

Publisher Number:

99973669314

40027569817