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Semiautomatic / Evie Shockley.

by Shockley, Evie, 1965-

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Wesleyan University Press, 2017.

American poetry -- Black authors.

American poetry -- Women authors.

American poetry -- 21st century.

Wesleyan poetry.

9780819577436 (hc.)

9780819577443 (pbk.)

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

Includes bibliographical references.

"These poems trace a whole web of connections between the kinds of violence that affect people across the racial, ethnic, gender, class, sexual, national, and linguistic boundaries that do and do not divide us. How do we protect our humanity, our ability to feel deeply and think freely, in the face of a seemingly endless onslaught of physical, social, and environmental abuses? Where do we find language to describe, process, and check the attacks and injuries we see and suffer? What actions can break us out of the soul-numbing cycle of emotions, moving through outrage, mourning, and despair, again and again? In poems that span fragment to narrative and quiz to constraint, from procedure to prose and sequence to song, semiautomatic culls past and present for guides to a hoped-for future"--Provided by publisher.

"Born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, poet Evie Shockley earned a BA at Northwestern University, a JD at the University of Michigan, and a PhD in English literature at Duke University. The author of several collections of poetry, including a half-red sea (2006) and the new black (2011), Shockley is also the author of the critical volume Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry (2011). Both spare and lyrical, Shockley's poems often begin with an active interrogation of received poetic forms and practices, such as capitalization. But her work is also interested in subjectivity, the lyric tradition, and notions of place"--From poetryfoundation.org website.

American poetry.

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