A Half-Red Sea

Author: Evie Shockley
Publisher: Carolina Wren Press
Published: 08/20/2006
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.90h x 7.00w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780932112538
About the Author
Born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, poet Evie Shockley earned a BA at Northwestern University, a JD at the University of Michigan, and a PhD in English literature at Duke University. The author of several collections of poetry, including a half-red sea (2006) and the new black (2011), Shockley is also the author of the critical volume Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry (2011). Her poetry and essays have been featured in several anthologies, including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (2009), Poets on Teaching: A Sourcebook (2010), A Broken Thing: Contemporary Poets on the Line (2011), and Contemporary African American Literature: The Living Canon (2013).