Electric Arches

by Eve L. Ewing

Paperback, 2017

Status

Available

Call number

PS3605.W553 A6

Genres

Publication

Haymarket Books (2017), 94 pages

Description

Electric Arches is an imaginative exploration of black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visual art, and narrative prose. Blending stark realism with the fantastical, Ewing takes us from the streets of Chicago to an alien arrival in an unspecified future, deftly navigating boundaries of space, time, and reality with delight and flexibility.

User reviews

LibraryThing member kcshankd
Delightful poems from a Chicago artist who is also a great twitter follow. The form and feel vary throughout, I liked this very much.
LibraryThing member thenumeraltwo
"I know I can't tell the difference between a good and a bad poem"

I enjoyed this. Just don't ask me to tell you why.

There's a tryptic of poems (The First Time,...,...) interspersed through the book, which I assumed on the title would be poems about sex. Then, it being 2018, I felt the needle —
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I hope it's consensual. They weren't. It was racism
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LibraryThing member CarrieWuj
Beautiful compilation of verse and art of personal experience, but translatable into universal understanding, empathy, compassion. In her introduction, Ewing says "This book is about my life and maybe also your life." and the foreword in the book notes "Poets fill in the spaces other types of
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storytelling can't always reach." That's the connection this book fosters. Ewing is an important voice in Chicago -- focusing on sociology in education at U of C and equity in CPS. "Ignore Eve Ewing at your own intellectual, political, and cultural peril." says Chicago magazine. Read this and you won't want to.
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Awards

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

7.9 x 7.8 inches

ISBN

1608468569 / 9781608468560
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