{"product_id":"semiautomatic-paperback","title":"Semiautomatic - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEvie Shockley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoetry that acts as a fierce and loving resistance to violence\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArt can't shield our bodies or stabilize the earth's climate, but Evie Shockley's \u003ci\u003esemiautomatic\u003c\/i\u003e insists that it can feed the spirit and reawaken the imagination. The volume responds primarily to the twenty-first century's inescapable evidence of the terms of black life--not so much new as newly visible. The poems trace a whole web of connections between the kinds of violence that affect people across the racial, ethnic, gender, class, sexual, national, and linguistic boundaries that do and do not divide us. How do we protect our humanity, our ability to feel deeply and think freely, in the face of a seemingly endless onslaught of physical, social, and environmental abuses? Where do we find language to describe, process, and check the attacks and injuries we see and suffer? What actions can break us out of the soul-numbing cycle of emotions, moving through outrage, mourning, and despair, again and again? In poems that span fragment to narrative and quiz to constraint, from procedure to prose and sequence to song, \u003ci\u003esemiautomatic\u003c\/i\u003e culls past and present for guides to a hoped-for future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEVIE SHOCKLEY is the author of several collections of poetry, including a half-red sea and the new black. She has won the Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry, the Holmes National Poetry Prize, and fellowships from Cave Canem, MacDowell, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library. She currently is an associate professor of English at Rutgers University New Brunswick.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 9.4 x 7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 05, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42174823268487,"sku":"9780819577443","price":17.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/0560c181da5fdcf3f960b31831587985.webp?v=1733377072","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/semiautomatic-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}