Suddenly we /

Evie Shockley's new poems invite us to dream and work toward a more capacious 'we.' In 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...

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Main Author: Shockley, Evie, 1965- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2023].
Series:Wesleyan poetry.
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