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Starred Review on September 15, 2017 | Fine Arts
In her typically uncompromising and intelligent language, award-winning poet Shockley (the new black) investigates the ongoing abuses suffered by African Americans while connecting them to sociopolitical threats worldwide ("through the holes in michael brown's body, I see: ☒ the fucking fracking chemicals bleeding into the groundwater/…☒ the coke brothers controlling the flow"). From the numerous elegies in "a-lyrical ballad (or, how america ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More