{"product_id":"semiautomatic-evie-shockley-9780819577443","title":"Semiautomatic","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Evie Shockley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0819577448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780819577443\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wesleyan University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/05\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 7.00w x 0.40d","brand":"Evie Shockley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44049776869631,"sku":"9780819577443","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_920677c9-422f-41dd-9162-ff4e76917b63.jpg?v=1685003397","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/semiautomatic-evie-shockley-9780819577443","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}