Evie Shockley's Reviews
Reviews of Evie’s Work
Feb.08.2013
Published by KCET.org
"Award-winning poet and UCLA English Professor Harryette Mullen is the subject of a compelling chapter; she also provided the inspiration for Shockley's title 'Renegade Poetics...
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Apr.16.2012
Published by FIELD / Poetry Daily
Shockley's own new book of poems exemplifies this fusion of the formal and innovative as well as any recent book I can think of. Shockley isn't simply a formalist, nor does...
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May.09.2011
Published by The Constant Critic
Plenty of contemporary poets might agree, in principle, that the whole point of a past is to use it, and that the whole point of one’s culture is to live it, but very few can...
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Apr.15.2011
Published by Library Journal
"In her latest book, Shockley . . . tells the reader not of some oversimplified and inaccurate version of 'the African-American experience' but of the plethora of experiences that...
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Aug.20.2009
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...
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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,...
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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 Goddess (Carolina Wren Press,...
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