New Black

Name: New Black
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ISBN: 9780819572875

ISBN-10: 081957287X

ISBN-13: 9780819572875

Edition: 2011

Authors: Evie Shockley

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Smart, grounded, and lyrical, Evie Shockley's the new black integrates powerful ideas about "blackness," past and present, through the medium of beautifully crafted verse. the new black sees our racial past inevitably shaping our contemporary moment, but struggles to remember and reckon with the impact of generational shifts: what seemed impossible to people not many years ago--for example, the election of an African American president--will have always been a part of the world of children born in the new millennium. All of the poems here, whether sonnet, mesostic, or deconstructed blues, exhibit a formal flair. They speak to the changes we have experienced as a society in the last few…

Book details

List price: $20.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 3/15/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 7.02" wide x 9.50" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

EVIE SHOCKLEY is an assistant professor of English at Rutgers University and the author of a half-red sea, the chapbook The Gorgon Goddess, and the forthcoming study Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry.



my last modernist poem, # 4 (or, re-re-birth of a nation)


Out With The Old


my life as china


from The Lost Letters of Frederick Douglass


celestial


mesostics from the american grammar book


statistical haiku (or, how do they discount us? let me count the ways)


good night women (or, defying the carcinogenic pen)


her tin skin


pink-think (a primer for girls of other colors)


clare's song


a sonnet for stanley tookie williams


in a non-subjunctive mood


where's carolina?


x marks the spot


received in spring


the defense of marriage act, alternatives to


dependencies


him/body/meant, her/body/meant


where you are planted


a background in music


ode to my blackness


The Cold


to see the minus


love life, with stitches


riven


never after


a matter of balance


on new year's eve


the cold


Out With the New


owed to shirley chisholm


bop for presidential politics, c. 2008


getting around utopia


you can't deny it


womanish


duck, duck, redux


because there should be love


improper(ty) behavior


at the musee de l'homme


a question of survival


soundtrack for a generational shift


revisiting


her table mountain


notes to my nieces (or, essays in fortune-telling)


coming of age


go-go tarot


quiet as it's kept


tonight i saw


salty (extended play)


explosives


(mis)takes one to know one


post-white


The Fare-Well Letters


the fare-well letters


dear ace bandage


dear cuddly dharma


dear existential fallacy


dear gift horse


dear ink jet


dear kerosene lamp


dear mid-afternoon nap


dear opaque policy


dear quaalude residue


dear safety test


dear untimely violet


dear white xmas


dear yesterday's zero


Notes


Acknowledgments