Electric Arches

Electric Archesis an imaginative exploration of Black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visual art, and narrative prose.

Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic, Eve L. Ewings narrative takes us from the streets of 1990s Chicago to an unspecified future, deftly navigating the boundaries of space, time, and reality. Ewing imagines familiar figures in magical circumstancesblues legend Koko Taylor is a tall-tale hero; LeBron James travels through time and encounters his teenage self. She identifies everyday objectshair moisturizer, a spiral notebookas precious icons.

Her visual art is spare, playful, and poignanta cereal box decoder ring that allows the wearer to understand what Black girls are saying; a teachers angry, subversive message scrawled on the chalkboard.Electric Archesinvites fresh conversations about race, gender, the city, identity, and the joy and pain of growing up.

Eve L. Ewingis a writer, scholar, artist, and educator from Chicago. Her work has appeared inPoetry, The New Yorker, New Republic, The Nation, The Atlantic, and many other publications. She is a sociologist at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration.

• Publisher:Haymarket Books (September 12, 2017)
• Language:English
• Paperback:94 pages
• ISBN-10:1608468569
• ISBN-13:9781608468560
• Item Weight:6.4 ounces
• Dimensions:7.9 x 0.4 x 7.8 inches