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7314322suddenly wehttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/suddenly-we-9780819500465/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/906879/97c43cda-52e0-4c51-95d2-889eeb9ac154.jpg?v=638756466056300000174200MXNWesleyan University PressInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>Finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry</strong></p><p>In her new poetry collection, Evie Shockley mobilizes visual art, sound, and multilayered language to chart routes towards openings for the collective dreaming of a more capacious "we." How do we navigate between the urgency of our own becoming and the imperative insight that whoever we are, we are in relation to each other? Beginning with the visionary art of Black women like Alison Saar and Alma Thomas, Shockleys poems draw and forge a widening constellation of connections that help make visible the interdependence of everyone and everything on Earth.</p><p><em><strong>perched</strong></em></p><p>i am black, comely,<br />a girl on the cusp of desire.<br />my dangling toes take the rest<br />the rest of my body refuses. spine upright,<br />my pose proposes anticipation. i poise<br />in copper-colored tension, intent on<br />manifesting my soul in the discouraging world.</p><p>under the rough eyes of others, i stiffen.</p><p>if i must be hard, it will be as a tree, alive<br />with change. inside me, a love of beauty rises<br />like sap, sprouts from my scalp<br />and stretches forth. i send out my song, an aria<br />blue and feathered, and grow toward it,<br />choirs bare, but soon to bud. i am<br />black and becoming.</p><p><em>after Alison Saars</em> Blue Bird</p>...956241suddenly we174200https://www.gandhi.com.mx/suddenly-we-9780819500465/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/906879/97c43cda-52e0-4c51-95d2-889eeb9ac154.jpg?v=638756466056300000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20239780819500465_W3siaWQiOiIwNzk1NzQ5ZS0wZjRhLTRkNjEtYmU4MC00ODRjYWJjMzhiYjQiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjIwMCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjI2LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjE3NCwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDItMjBUMDg6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780819500465_<p><strong>Finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry</strong></p><p>In her new poetry collection, Evie Shockley mobilizes visual art, sound, and multilayered language to chart routes towards openings for the collective dreaming of a more capacious "we." How do we navigate between the urgency of our own becoming and the imperative insight that whoever we are, we are in relation to each other? Beginning with the visionary art of Black women like Alison Saar and Alma Thomas, Shockleys poems draw and forge a widening constellation of connections that help make visible the interdependence of everyone and everything on Earth.</p><p><em><strong>perched</strong></em></p><p>i am black, comely,<br />a girl on the cusp of desire.<br />my dangling toes take the rest<br />the rest of my body refuses. spine upright,<br />my pose proposes anticipation. i poise<br />in copper-colored tension, intent on<br />manifesting my soul in the discouraging world.</p><p>under the rough eyes of others, i stiffen.</p><p>if i must be hard, it will be as a tree, alive<br />with change. inside me, a love of beauty rises<br />like sap, sprouts from my scalp<br />and stretches forth. i send out my song, an aria<br />blue and feathered, and grow toward it,<br />choirs bare, but soon to bud. i am<br />black and becoming.</p><p><em>after Alison Saars</em> Blue Bird</p>...9780819500465_Wesleyan University Presslibro_electonico_9780819500465_9780819500465Evie ShockleyInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/openroadmedia-epub-033a54f8-a505-4ec0-97da-9e1645506747.epub2023-03-07T00:00:00+00:00Wesleyan University Press