Electric Arches SIGNED
Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2017.
Third Printing. Paperback. Signed by Eve L. Ewing in ink at title page. 8" X 8". 94pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps, with faint dust soiling to covers and tiny crease to bottom corner. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. A beautiful signed early printing of writer, scholar, and cultural organizer Eve L. Ewing's visionary poetry debut. A presentable signed early printing.
ABOUT ELECTRIC ARCHES:
Original meditations on race, gender, identity, and the joy and pain of growing up, from a distinctive new voice.
Electric Arches is an imaginative exploration of Black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visual art, and narrative prose.
Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic, Eve L. Ewing’s narrative takes us from the streets of 1990s Chicago to an unspecified future, deftly navigating the boundaries of space, time, and reality. Ewing imagines familiar figures in magical circumstances—blues legend Koko Taylor is a tall-tale hero; LeBron James travels through time and encounters his teenage self. She identifies everyday objects—hair moisturizer, a spiral notebook—as precious icons.
Her visual art is spare, playful, and poignant—a cereal box decoder ring that allows the wearer to understand what Black girls are saying; a teacher’s angry, subversive message scrawled on the chalkboard. Electric Arches invites fresh conversations about race, gender, the city, identity, and the joy and pain of growing up. (Publisher)
"This remarkable debut begins with the clearest reminders of what African Americans have endured, then takes a running leap into rapturous possibility--not as mere escape, but rather as a way of summoning up the miraculous web of hope, knowledge, love, and belief that has sustained black life in this country through unforgiving centuries. While reading, I found myself continually thinking, I had no idea you could make poetry do that, followed by, Thank God she has done this." — National Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith
"The spirit of this collection soars and Ewing tackles so much across the writing and art offered here.... [T]he poetry was so exact and vivid that I could smell the pink oil, feel the texture of it against my fingers. I cannot ask for more from writing. Electric Arches is well worth your time. The writing here will make you think and feel and grow." — Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist and Hunger. Very good +. Item #16928
ISBN: 9781608468560
Price: $30.00