Smart, grounded, and lyrical, Evie Shockley's the new black integrates powerful ideas about "blackness," past and present, through the medium of beautifully crafted verse. the new black sees our racial past inevitably shaping our contemporary moment, but struggles to remember an…
"Chronicling a journey of loss and mending, Becky Birtha's first collection of poetry exhibits the same strength of vision and richness of language as her short stories in Lover's Choice. Beginning with poems about confronting racism and her empowerment as an African-American an…
"Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the superm…