Holy spamming, Batman! Stunning.

The collection is divided in three parts: true stories, oil and water, and letters from the flatlands. When an old lady shouts ‘go back to your nigger Jesse Jackson neighbourhood’, it is the young girl’s imagination that helps her to cope. In a recent reading, Eve Ewing quoted the Black Liberation Army leader Assata Shakur: “Black Revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. There was no discernible theme or context/connection from one work to the next.

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. toes tracing lines luxuriantly through the mud. Ewing's poems are both extremely specific yet bloom beyond that, filled with memories of the past and the future. smiling from the end of a tinkerer’s cart. The writing here will make you think and feel and grow. If you read this book, you will feel invincible. ‘[re-telling]’ poems such as this use imagination, and a blend of magical realism and science fiction, as a coping mechanism; typed text gives way to handwriting to reflect an escape from reality. When I first heard about Electric Arches, I looked forward to reading Ewing's book. "Electric Arches" reminded me that being Black is to be human in a way that is deeply rooted in the community, the Earth, and the cosmos. the re-tellings poems with hand-written magical endings. Electric Arches is an imaginative exploration of black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visual art, and narrative prose. Section Two of Electric Arches, ‘oil and water’ addresses the black female body. While I enjoyed some of the pieces, especially those in the second section, the collection as a whole felt a bit scattered.

I loved the last poem addressed to youth in prison. She identifies everyday objects—hair moisturizer, a spiral notebook—as precious icons. But oh, the spirit of this collection soars and Ewing tackles so much across the writing and art offered here. and they could not be shot dead so do not fall for it. I'm gonna donate copies of this collection to the prisons in Wisconsin. It's only showing us a part of the world we too often ignore or discredit.

I thought her writing was magical. Masterful. I felt so much nostalgia and recognition in “Ode to Luster’s Pink Oil,” and the poetry was so exact and vivid that I could smell the pink oil, feel the texture of it against my fingers. This is poetry that can change the world, because it isn't trying to. She circles the lady, making her dizzy, then scoops her up and flies with her to a lake, leaving the old lady on a rock. Winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award, Poetry Society of AmericaAlex Award Winner 2018, American Library AssociationBest Books of 2017, NPRTop Ten Books of 2017, Chicago TribuneBest Poetry Book of 2017, Chicago Review of BooksFeatured Poetry Debut, Poets & Writers MagazineEarphones Award Winner, AudioFilePublisher's Weekly Starred ReviewParis Review Staff PickTop Ten Books of 2017, Chicago Public LibraryFinalist, Goodreads Best Poetry 2017. writer. There was an interesting strain of afro futurism throughout that I wish was more fully explored. Then she coats it in layers of Chicago-saturated truths that are reflective of so many cities where black and brown girls and boys live, grow and learn on their blocks about what makes them, their families and their circumstances unique.

It should come with a warning. To see what your friends thought of this book, I hope so! The poems that were amazing were truly amazing, full of richness and depth about black girlhood and black womanness. Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic, Eve L. Ewing’s narrative takes us from the streets of 1990s Chicago to the story of an alien arrival in an unspecified future, deftly navigating the boundaries of space, time, and reality with delight and flexibility. September 12th 2017 Every word was chosen carefully, and the combination of real life and magic is sincerely beautiful. In the final poem of Section Two, ‘Thursday Morning, Newbury Street’, I am reminded of the micro-aggression in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen when the therapist mistakes her black client for the cleaner. I selected this poetry collection because of the cover. It's a work of time travel for me, and disturbing the timeline to go back to a favorite poem space is totally okay here. Arc welders can use either direct (DC) or alternating (AC) current, and consumable or non-consumable electrodes. Multiple times I cried and the poem about Fullerton Ave was amazing.

Not all, but some, of my clients are readers. With this said, I was a bit disappointed in this book for the following reasons: An interesting mix of poetry, prose, and art. It is an imagination that reminds us that it is not just institutions, but people who must change. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. The work in the section “Oil and Water” is by far the strongest and most compelling.

Ewing is a prolific writer across multiple genres. A whimsical collection of poetry, prose, and art, Electric Arches explores the depths of Black girlhood and womanhood.

felt no pain but made endless noise and how small ones could. I also hope that nonblack women find their own sense of comfort and happiness within the pages. Really liked this collection — very accessible and powerful and beautiful. Ewing imagines familiar figures in magical or surreal circumstances—blues legend Koko Taylor is a tall-tale hero; LeBron James travels through time and encounters his teenage self. In ‘four boys on Ellis’, the boys have been stopped by the police, suspected of stealing a phone. But with this stunning writing you can't not take notice. As with her stories, though, her poems often take fantastical turns. I LOVE this book! The title of Electric Arches’s first section is “true stories,” and perhaps that’s a preventive measure against some readers’ disbelief—yes, listen, this really happens.



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