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Author:
Ewing, Eve L.
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Haymarket Books 2017
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Electric Arches is an imaginative exploration of black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visual art, and narrative prose. Blending stark realism with the fantastical, Ewing takes us from the streets of Chicago to an alien arrival in an unspecified future, deftly navigating boundaries of space, time, and reality with delight and flexibility.
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Eve L. Ewing. (2017). Electric Arches. Haymarket Books.

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Eve L. Ewing. 2017. Electric Arches. Haymarket Books.

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Eve L. Ewing, Electric Arches. Haymarket Books, 2017.

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Eve L. Ewing. Electric Arches. Haymarket Books, 2017.

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        In this stunning debut, poet and sociologist Ewing brings to bear a variety of forms and mediums—including the prose poem, the lyric, mixed media collage, handwritten notes and ephemera, and the verse play—on set of related questions about the nature of art and politics. Ewing ponders what the “big fireworks” of the imagination make possible for social justice, asking how “the places we invent” can change the ways we negotiate a broken system in which the realities of a city block’s crumbling infrastructure and economic destitution can limit the potential of the individual and collective alike. As the book unfolds, Ewing further refines her lines of inquiry; her subtle, provocative exploration of the boundaries between self and world allows a striking and visionary topography to take shape. Midway through the collection, Ewing writes, “I mean I never met a dish of horseradish I didn’t like./ I mean you’re a twisted and ugly root/ and I’m the pungent, stinging firmness inside./ I mean I look so good.” In apprehending the world she clarifies her sense of self, its boundaries, and its possibilities. Throughout the collection, Ewing calls attention to her inner experience and the material conditions in which they formed, unearthing the small treasures that can foster greater change.

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        Starred review from November 15, 2017

        Blending poetry, prose, and illustration, this ambitious and inventive debut collection from University of Chicago sociologist Ewing offers the coming-of-age story of a young African American woman told with raw indignation ("We, the forgotten Delta people,/ the dry riverbed people"), close observation ("the slick of you and the smell of sugar and hot plastic," of Luster's Pink Oil), and triumph ("Sometimes being an artist means walking faster than everybody,/ shedding your clothes/ like the devil dressed you in his own best ideas"). The result effectively portrays both growing up and growing up black, mediated through a tremendous sense of physicality. VERDICT Smart and widely appealing.

        Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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