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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 rest

the rest of my body refuses. spine upright,

my pose proposes anticipation. i poise

in copper-colored tension, intent on

manifesting 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, alive

with change. inside me, a love of beauty rises

like sap, sprouts from my scalp

and stretches forth. i send out my song, an aria

blue and feathered, and grow toward it,

choirs bare, but soon to bud. i am

black and becoming.

- after Alison Saar's Blue Bird

suddenly we

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Evie Shockley's new poems invite us to dream - and work - toward a more capacious "we"In her new poetry... Read more

    Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
    Publication Date: 07/03/2023
    ISBN13: 9780819500458, 978-0819500458
    ISBN10: 0819500453

    Number of Pages: 112

    Fiction , Poetry

    Description

    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 rest

    the rest of my body refuses. spine upright,

    my pose proposes anticipation. i poise

    in copper-colored tension, intent on

    manifesting 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, alive

    with change. inside me, a love of beauty rises

    like sap, sprouts from my scalp

    and stretches forth. i send out my song, an aria

    blue and feathered, and grow toward it,

    choirs bare, but soon to bud. i am

    black and becoming.

    - after Alison Saar's Blue Bird

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