Eve Ewing Electric Arches

Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic eve l.

Eve ewing electric arches.

Electric arches is an imaginative exploration of black girlhood and womanhood through poetry visual art and narrative prose. Ewing s narrative takes us from the streets of 1990s chicago to an unspecified future deftly navigating the boundaries of space time and reality. Ewing are out 30 july 2020. Ewing recovers the essentially human stories at the heart of the chicago race riot of 1919.

Electric arches and 1919 by eve l. Electric arches is an imaginative exploration of black girlhood and womanhood through poetry visual art and narrative prose. With a dash of the tale of an alien invasion ewing takes us through black girlhood and womanhood in a variety of prose poetic and artistic styles all of which are gorgeous. Ewing s narrative takes us from the streets of 1990s chicago to the story of an alien arrival in an unspecified future deftly navigating the boundaries of space time and reality with delight and flexibility.

Eve louise ewing born 1986 is a sociologist author poet and visual artist from chicago ewing is an assistant professor at the school of social service administration at the university of chicago her academic research in the sociology of education includes the 2018 book ghosts in the schoolyard. Ewing is absolutely stunning. Electric arches is 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. Racism and school closings on chicago s south side a study of school closures in chicago.

Of the people who took part in it and of the lives that were marked by it. In 1919 award winning poet eve l.