Evie Shockley Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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poet & literary scholar, people-oriented introvert, optimist of the will
Slave Moth: A Narrative in Verse
Thylias MossEvie Shockley@DeVonciFig Sonia Sanchez, Does Your House Have Lions? Harryette Mullen, Muse & Drudge Alice Notley, The Descent of Alette Kamau Brathwaite, The Arrivants Lyn Hejenian, My Life Amiri Baraka, Wise, Why's, Y's Gwendolyn Brooks, The Anniad Thylias Moss, Slave Moth Renee Gladman, The Activist
Paperback, 2006
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Wise, Why's, Y's: The Griot's Song Djeli YA
Amiri BarakaEvie Shockley@DeVonciFig Sonia Sanchez, Does Your House Have Lions? Harryette Mullen, Muse & Drudge Alice Notley, The Descent of Alette Kamau Brathwaite, The Arrivants Lyn Hejenian, My Life Amiri Baraka, Wise, Why's, Y's Gwendolyn Brooks, The Anniad Thylias Moss, Slave Moth Renee Gladman, The Activist
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Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
Robin D. G. KelleyEvie Shockley@adamm0rgan @esquire * Robin DG Kelley’s bio of Thelonious Monk * Savage Beauty, Nancy Milford’s bio of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Paperback, 2010
$23.00Member price:$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Never: Poems
Jorie GrahamEvie Shockley@jorie_graham @mfernandespoet Always delighted to help poems find their readers! Also delighted to read your NYer interview a few days ago, I should add. 💫
Paperback, 2003
$21.00Member price:$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
White Egrets: Poems
Derek WalcottEvie ShockleyI get caught up in new poetry sometimes, & have to remember that the poems that slayed me decades ago *still slay.* This one by Derek Walcott is a stunner—the 1st time & each time after that. For anyone who has survived love’s loss. ✨ https://t.co/QtgfifTCz3
Paperback, 2011
$15.00Member price:$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Thrall: Poems
Natasha TretheweyEvie ShockleyDo I have to start? Okay, I’d nominate either Natasha Trethewey (I associate her Hurricane Katrina poems with fall) or Julie Patton (who has made poems/installations with actual browning leaves.
Paperback, 2015
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mama Day
Gloria NaylorEvie Shockley@illuminatemics @ReeAmilcarScott @jesmimi Willow Springs, in Gloria Naylor's *Mama Day*
Paperback, 1989
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
All the Blood Involved in Love
Maya MarshallEvie ShockleyIf you need balm against the wounds of this week / this world, watch this book launch for @mayaamarshall’s new poetry collection, All the Blood Involved in Love, & get thee a copy of the book. 💫💜✊🏽 (Bonus: @YesAurielle’s Gumbo Ya-Ya up in the mix) 🔥 https://www.crowdcast.io/e/all-the-blood-involved/1
Paperback, 2022
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Salt Eaters
Toni Cade BambaraEvie Shockley@CharlesWMcKinn2 The Salt Eaters, Toni Cade Bambara "Power," Audre Lorde Wise, Why's, Y's, Amiri Baraka everything by June Jordan
Paperback, 1992
$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Carceral Capitalism
Jackie WangEvie ShockleyIf you haven’t been reading Jackie Wang’s poetry (or her writing generally), now’s the time to start! Check this lovely meditative poem (& chase it with her essays on carceral capitalism). ✨🔥 https://t.co/gBTDQZS0jI
Paperback, 2018
$14.95Member price:$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book