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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Poetry
- Signed By
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- Signed
- No
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Features
- Paperback
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Intended Audience
- Adults, Young Adults
- Edition
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780819577443
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
ISBN-10
0819577448
ISBN-13
9780819577443
eBay Product ID (ePID)
236991193
Product Key Features
Book Title
Semiautomatic
Number of Pages
104 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Topic
Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, American / African American, Women Authors
Genre
Poetry
Book Series
Wesleyan Poetry Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
9.6 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-059299
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Evie Shockley burns up the page with her new collection.... semiautomatic is a 21st century survival guide, fierce and full of compassion."--Diana Whitney, San Francisco Chronicle "Evie Shockley burns up the page with her new collection. semiautomatic is a 21st century survival guide, fierce and full of compassion."--Diana Whitney, San Francisco Chronicle "[N]otable not only for the way it navigates questions of identity & politics, but for the variety & virtuosity of its use of form."--Robert Archambeau, The Hudson Review "In semiautomatic , a 2018 Pulitzer finalist and the recent winner of the Hurston/Wright Award for Poetry, Evie 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."--Christopher Spaide, LA Review of Books, "Evie Shockley burns up the page with her new collection.... semiautomatic is a 21st century survival guide, fierce and full of compassion."--Diana Whitney, San Francisco Chronicle "[N]otable not only for the way it navigates questions of identity & politics, but for the variety & virtuosity of its use of form." --Robert Archambeau, The Hudson Review "... semiautomatic grapples with the violent imprint America has made upon black bodies through the ages."--Tracy K. Smith, The New York Times , "Political Poetry Is Hot Again. The Poet Laureate Explores Why, and How" "Ablaze with wordplay and formal ingenuity, Shockley's poems chronicle the horrors of the 21st century while igniting the imagination as an act of hope."--John McMurtrie, San Francisco Chronicle , "Year in review: The best books of 2018", "Evie Shockley suggests that poetry is necessary to seeing, surviving with equilibrium and wholeness in this period's vital and precarious junctures. The poems in semiautomatic are on fire. This will make an excellent source book of poetic form and historically grounded black aesthetics for the classroom."--Erica Hunt, Long Island University "Evie Shockley's semiautomatic goes beyond mere weaponry. This book is revelatory. A tool in the chest of cultural workers, a vocabulary that resists decoration; this is self-portraiture and truth-telling at its best. From her epic 'the topsy suite' to her one-acts (a new form), through her fearless lens and appropriation of authorities, there's no level of denial or proof-vest that will protect you from Shockley's poetry. You can run, Reader, but you will not be able to look the other way."--Willie Perdomo, author of The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon "This is an extraordinary, wonderful book. Evie Shockley is a great black poet. I know she might not put it that way, and sees all of what's problematic in my putting it that way. Her greatness is in that, too. She makes revolution irresistible just like she heard we should."--Fred Moten, author of The Little Edges "There is no keener mind in American poetry than Shockley's, with her quick turns and inflections, slipping between subjectivity and documentary, between verse and refrain. Her poems engage--politically, formally, historically, profoundly--with the redistribution of power through language. Read this book and get shook."--D. A. Powell "Evie Shockley suggests that poetry is necessary to seeing, surviving with equilibrium and wholeness in this period's vital and precarious junctures. The poems in semiautomatic are on fire. This will make an excellent source book of poetic form and historically grounded black aesthetics for the classroom."--Erica Hunt, Long Island University, "Evie Shockley suggests that poetry is necessary to seeing, surviving with equilibrium and wholeness in this period's vital and precarious junctures. The poems in semiautomatic are on fire. This will make an excellent source book of poetic form and historically grounded black aesthetics for the classroom."--Erica Hunt, Long Island University "Evie Shockley's semiautomatic goes beyond mere weaponry. This book is revelatory. A tool in the chest of cultural workers, a vocabulary that resists decoration; this is self-portraiture and truth-telling at its best. From her epic 'the topsy suite' to her one-acts (a new form), through her fearless lens and appropriation of authorities, there's no level of denial or proof-vest that will protect you from Shockley's poetry. You can run, Reader, but you will not be able to look the other way.""--Willie Perdomo, author of The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon "This is an extraordinary, wonderful book. Evie Shockley is a great black poet. I know she might not put it that way, and sees all of what's problematic in my putting it that way. Her greatness is in that, too. She makes revolution irresistible just like she heard we should.""--Fred Moten, author of The Little Edges "There is no keener mind in American poetry than Shockley's, with her quick turns and inflections, slipping between subjectivity and documentary, between verse and refrain. Her poems engage--politically, formally, historically, profoundly--with the redistribution of power through language. Read this book and get shook.""--D. A. Powell "Evie Shockley suggests that poetry is necessary to seeing, surviving with equilibrium and wholeness in this period's vital and precarious junctures. The poems in semiautomatic are on fire. This will make an excellent source book of poetic form and historically grounded black aesthetics for the classroom."--Erica Hunt, Long Island University, "Evie Shockley burns up the page with her new collection.... semiautomatic is a 21st century survival guide, fierce and full of compassion."--Diana Whitney, San Francisco Chronicle "[N]otable not only for the way it navigates questions of identity & politics, but for the variety & virtuosity of its use of form."--Robert Archambeau, The Hudson Review "In semiautomatic , a 2018 Pulitzer finalist and the recent winner of the Hurston/Wright Award for Poetry, Evie 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."--Christopher Spaide, LA Review of Books, "Evie Shockley burns up the page with her new collection.... semiautomatic is a 21st century survival guide, fierce and full of compassion."--Diana Whitney, San Francisco Chronicle "Evie Shockley suggests that poetry is necessary to seeing, surviving with equilibrium and wholeness in this period's vital and precarious junctures. The poems in semiautomatic are on fire. This will make an excellent source book of poetic form and historically grounded black aesthetics for the classroom."--Erica Hunt, Long Island University "There is no keener mind in American poetry than Shockley's, with her quick turns and inflections, slipping between subjectivity and documentary, between verse and refrain. Her poems engage--politically, formally, historically, profoundly--with the redistribution of power through language. Read this book and get shook."--D. A. Powell "This is an extraordinary, wonderful book. Evie Shockley is a great black poet. I know she might not put it that way, and sees all of what's problematic in my putting it that way. Her greatness is in that, too. She makes revolution irresistible just like she heard we should."--Fred Moten, author of The Little Edges "Evie Shockley's semiautomatic goes beyond mere weaponry. This book is revelatory. A tool in the chest of cultural workers, a vocabulary that resists decoration; this is self-portraiture and truth-telling at its best. From her epic 'the topsy suite' to her one-acts (a new form), through her fearless lens and appropriation of authorities, there's no level of denial or proof-vest that will protect you from Shockley's poetry. You can run, Reader, but you will not be able to look the other way."--Willie Perdomo, author of The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon "Evie Shockley burns up the page with her new collection. semiautomatic is a 21st century survival guide, fierce and full of compassion."--Diana Whitney, San Francisco Chronicle "[N]otable not only for the way it navigates questions of identity & politics, but for the variety & virtuosity of its use of form."--Robert Archambeau, The Hudson Review, "Evie Shockley burns up the page with her new collection.... semiautomatic is a 21st century survival guide, fierce and full of compassion."--Diana Whitney, San Francisco Chronicle "Evie Shockley burns up the page with her new collection. semiautomatic is a 21st century survival guide, fierce and full of compassion."--Diana Whitney, San Francisco Chronicle "[N]otable not only for the way it navigates questions of identity & politics, but for the variety & virtuosity of its use of form."--Robert Archambeau, The Hudson Review, Evie Shockley burns up the page with her new collection.... semiautomatic is a 21st century survival guide, fierce and full of compassion., [N]otable not only for the way it navigates questions of identity & politics, but for the variety & virtuosity of its use of form., "Evie Shockley burns up the page with her new collection.... semiautomatic is a 21st century survival guide, fierce and full of compassion."--Diana Whitney, San Francisco Chronicle "[N]otable not only for the way it navigates questions of identity & politics, but for the variety & virtuosity of its use of form." --Robert Archambeau, The Hudson Review --
Dewey Decimal
811/.6
Table Of Content
that's a rap (sheet music for alphabet street) 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 a one-act play 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 a one-act play 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 acknowledgments
Synopsis
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 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., Poetry that acts as a fierce and loving resistance to violence Winner of Hurston/Wright Foundation's Legacy Award for Poetry, given by the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, 2018 Finalist for the Pultizer Prize for poetry, 2019 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 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., 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 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.
LC Classification Number
PS3619.H63A6 2017
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