Half-Red Sea

Name: Half-Red Sea
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ISBN: 9780932112538

ISBN-10: 0932112536

ISBN-13: 9780932112538

Edition: 2006

Authors: Evie Shockley

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In a half-red sea, Evie Shockley is 'dreaming the lives of the ancestors.' Navigating against prevailing currents, these poems sail on eddy and backflow, taking inspiration from knots and twists of American history and culture. Whether improvising between the lines of a slave narrative in 'henry bibb considers love and livery,' amplifying Lady Day's most devastating blues in 'you can say that again, billie,' or going freestyle with 'double bop for ntozake shange,' Shockley's imagination travels every which away. In 'a thousand words' and other reflections on contemporary events, Shockley's firm grounding in history adds weight and depth to her observations of the recent past and present.…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Carolina Wren Press
Publication date: 8/20/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.022
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.