{"product_id":"semiautomatic","title":"Semiautomatic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoetry that acts as a fierce and loving resistance to violence\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinner of Hurston\/Wright Foundation's Legacy Award for Poetry, given by the Zora Neale Hurston\/Richard Wright Foundation, 2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the Pultizer Prize for poetry, 2019\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\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","brand":"Evie Shockley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793327554602,"sku":"9780819577443","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/semiautomatic-3800924.jpg?v=1762150649","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/semiautomatic","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}