Suddenly we / Evie Shockley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shockley, Evie, 1965- author.

Series:

Wesleyan poetry

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

106 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"Shockley repurposes literary and musical modes from across centuries of African American and diasporic traditions. Given the choice between formal flawlessness and page-spanning sprawls, between autobiographical revelation and collective outcry, she welcomes the self-contradictions of being all the above."-- Provided by publisher.

"Evie Shockley's new poems invite us to dream-and work-toward a more capacious 'we'. In her new poetry collection, Evie Shockley mobilizes visual art, sound, and multilayered language to chart routes towards openings for the collective dreaming of a more capacious 'we.' How do we navigate between the urgency of our own becoming and the imperative insight that whoever we are, we are in relation to each other? Beginning with the visionary art of Black women like Alison Saar and Alma Thomas, Shockley's poems draw and forge a widening constellation of connections that help make visible the interdependence of everyone and everything on Earth. perched i am black, comely,a girl on the cusp of desire.my dangling toes take the restthe rest of my body refuses. spine upright,my pose proposes anticipation. i poisein copper-colored tension, intent onmanifesting my soul in the discouraging world. under the rough eyes of others, i stiffen. if i must be hard, it will be as a tree, alivewith change. inside me, a love of beauty riseslike sap, sprouts from my scalpand stretches forth. i send out my song, an ariablue and feathered, and grow toward it,choirs bare, but soon to bud. i amblack and becoming. -after Alison Saar's Blue Bird"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: We:: Becoming & Going

Perched

No car for colored [+] ladies (or, miss wells goes off [on] the rails)

The Blessings

The Beauties: Third Dimension

Blues-Elegy for cheryl

(In)site unseen

Sol(ace) song

The lost track of time

We:: Uppity & Down

Women's voting rights at one hundred (but who's counting?)

Nature Studies

Fruitful

Dive In

What does it mean to be human?

In this light

"The musician stands out" (or, le musee de l'orangerie curates a history lesson)

Breonna taylor's final rest (or, the furies are still activists)

Color bleeding

Destin(ed)ation

Migratory patterns: birds of paradise

We:: Indurate & Out

Virtually free

Fire Works

Can't Unsee

An inoculation against innocence

One foot out of the panorama

Umbra's ell

In Relation: A semi-cento with, for, and about john keene (et al.)

Jury Duty

Prefixed

Holla

Anti-immigration

Ex patria

We:: Adhere & There

The center of a tension

Direct to your table

We'd like to propose

Brava gente

Pantoum: 2020

Sonnet for the long second act

Facing south

Les milles.

Other Format:

Online version: Shockley, Evie, 1965- Suddenly we

ISBN:

9780819500236

0819500232

9780819500458

0819500453

OCLC:

1338131745