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The Gorgon Goddess

by Evie Shockley

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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

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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

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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...

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Published Reviews

Jun.06.2008

*a half-red sea* by Evie Shockley

Published by Rain Taxi Review of Books (Online Edition)

In a half-red sea, Evie Shockley’s first full-length collection of poetry, the poet presents public and private histories through a series of narratives, lyrical monologues, fantastic episodes, and...

Aug.20.2009

Evie Shockley, "a half-red sea" (Carolina Wren Press, 2006)

Published by Harriet: a Blog from the Poetry Foundation

"There is much to be admired in this collection of poems. In addition to the sonnet-ballad form, she employs the pantoum and the acrostic in very smooth and revealing ways. As well, Shockley’s Harryette...