Evie Shockley's Books
Oct.28.2011
Beginning with a deceptively simple question—What do we mean when we designate behaviors, values, or forms of expression as “black”?—Evie Shockley’s Renegade Poetics separates what we think we know about black aesthetics from the more complex and nuanced possibilities the concept has long encompassed. The study reminds us, first, that even among the radicalized young poets and...
Jan.01.2011
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—...
May.09.2008
A beautiful broadside edition of one of my poems, "my life as china." The poem was previously published in the journal Talisman, in the Fall 2005/Winter 2006 issue. My invitation to read at the fabulous Center for Book Arts in NYC included the honor of having a CBA artist, Lindsay Valentin, create and produce a broadside version of one of my poems in a limited edition...
Oct.01.2006
“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...
Jun.09.2001
Is it one voice or many?
Evie Shockley's debut collection goes rapidly through the keys and changes. Public presences are here -- Miles Davis, Cicely Tyson, Anita Hill, Rosa Parks -- but are caught up and transformed by Shockley's formal, lyric, and dramatic energies. These are poems crowded with life.
-- David Kellogg
About Evie
Evie Shockley is the author of two books of poetry, the new black (Wesleyan UP, 2011) and a half-red sea (Carolina Wren Press, 2006), and two chapbooks, 31 words * prose poems (Belladonna* Books, 2007) and The Gorgon Goddess (Carolina Wren Press,...
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