{"product_id":"suddenly-we-9780819500458","title":"Suddenly We","description":"\u003cb\u003eEvie Shockley's new poems invite us to dream--and work--toward a more capacious \"we\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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, Shockley's poems draw and forge a widening constellation of connections that help make visible the interdependence of everyone and everything on Earth.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eperched\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003ei am black, comely, \u003cbr\u003ea girl on the cusp of desire.\u003cbr\u003emy dangling toes take the rest\u003cbr\u003ethe rest of my body refuses. spine upright, \u003cbr\u003emy pose proposes anticipation. i poise\u003cbr\u003ein copper-colored tension, intent on\u003cbr\u003emanifesting my soul in the discouraging world.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eunder the rough eyes of others, i stiffen.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eif i must be hard, it will be as a tree, alive\u003cbr\u003ewith change. inside me, a love of beauty rises\u003cbr\u003elike sap, sprouts from my scalp\u003cbr\u003eand stretches forth. i send out my song, an aria\u003cbr\u003eblue and feathered, and grow toward it, \u003cbr\u003echoirs bare, but soon to bud. i am\u003cbr\u003eblack and becoming.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003cbr\u003e --after Alison Saar's \u003c\/i\u003eBlue Bird\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wesleyan University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/07\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780819500458","brand":"Evie Shockley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42589551198389,"sku":"9780819500458","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_02358c0e-5880-4a20-8de8-3913a57105a7.jpg?v=1673326809","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/suddenly-we-9780819500458","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}