Evie Shockley

Evie Shockley is a poet from Nashville, Tennnessee. Her most recent book is the new black (Wesleyan University Press, 2011). 

 


"something is always burning, passion,


                        pride, envy, desire, the internal organs 


        going chokingly up in smoke, as some-


                thing outside the body exerts a pull


that drags us like a match across sand-


                        paper. something is always burning, 


        london, paris, detroit, l.a., the neighbor-


 


                hoods no one outside seems to see until 


they're backlit by flames…"


      – from "playing with fire"


 


 


Books

  • The New Black

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