Semiautomatic

by Evie Shockley

Book Overview

Poetry that acts as a fierce and loving resistance to violence

Art can't shield our bodies or stabilize the earth's climate, but Evie Shockley's semiautomatic insists that it can feed the spirit and reawaken the imagination. The volume responds primarily to the twenty-first century's inescapable evidence of the terms of black life--not so much new as newly visible. The poems trace a whole web of connections between the kinds...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819577448
• ISBN13: 9780819577443
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 9.4"