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By Evie Shockley

ISBN-10: 0819572888

ISBN-13: 9780819572882

Shrewdpermanent, grounded, and lyrical, Evie Shockley’s the new black integrates robust rules approximately “blackness,” prior and current, during the medium of fantastically crafted verse. the new black sees our racial previous necessarily shaping our modern second, yet struggles to recollect and reckon with the effect of generational shifts: what appeared most unlikely to humans no longer a long time ago—for instance, the election of an African American president—will have constantly been part of the area of youngsters born within the new millennium. the entire poems right here, even if sonnet, mesostic, or deconstructed blues, show a proper aptitude. They communicate to the adjustments we've got skilled as a society within the previous couple of decades—changes that frequently problem our prior ideas for resisting racism and, for African americans, methods of in terms of each other. The poems include a proper ambiguity that echoes the uncertainty those shifts produce, whereas reveling in language play that permits readers to “laugh to maintain from crying.” They go through nostalgia, while they insist on being alive to the current and element longingly in the direction of attainable futures.

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She wasn’t jealous. she had a man. a black man. she only wished she was invited to dance more at the club. she wasn’t black enough. or. white enough. to catch the white guys’ eyes. she didn’t look like the type. to. she nursed her amaretto sour till it was mostly melt. she was the designated driver. the chaperone. the colored girl. whose skirt was not short enough or tight enough. to. one night, her man was o≠ from his job. parking steeds. imported, european steeds. for tips. for tuition. he could take her out.

But. and. she pricked her finger on it. she began to fall. down. she could hardly stand. it. charming. her man’s kiss did not revive her. make it go away. he carried her o≠ into the set sun. o≠ the set. up. she slept it o≠. they shrugged it o≠. they learned what they already knew. they knew better. they lived to tell the scary tale. 37 a matter of balance it’s not a goodbye fuck unless you both know it. this is a matter of balance. if either of you is oblivious, it’s a dangling fuck—as with syntax—one of you looking forward to something that simply isn’t coming.

He carried her o≠ into the set sun. o≠ the set. up. she slept it o≠. they shrugged it o≠. they learned what they already knew. they knew better. they lived to tell the scary tale. 37 a matter of balance it’s not a goodbye fuck unless you both know it. this is a matter of balance. if either of you is oblivious, it’s a dangling fuck—as with syntax—one of you looking forward to something that simply isn’t coming. it’s not a goodbye fuck if it’s not good. don’t name it—paint love and forever silently on each other’s skin with amnesiac fingertips.

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