About the Author

Evie Shockley is a poet and an assistant professor of English at Rutgers University. She is the author of two books of poetry, the new black and a half-red sea, and two chapbooks, 31 words * prose poems and The Gorgon Goddess.

Reviews

"Renegade Poetics would be a valuable work even if it only added substantially to the now, finally, bourgeoning discourse reconsidering the Black Arts Movement of the late 1960's and early 1970's. Evie Shockley, however, does far more than that. She considerably broadens our considerations of black aesthetics and brings the discussion forward through the subsequent stages of criticism to a meditation upon what black aesthetics and poetics can mean for us in the twenty-first century. This is one of the best first books of criticism I've ever read, a book easily the equal of work done by much more experienced and celebrated scholars."--Aldon Nielsen, author, Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation

" Renegade Poetics" would be a valuable work even if it only added substantially to the now, finally, bourgeoning discourse reconsidering the Black Arts Movement of the late 1960's and early 1970's. Evie Shockley, however, does far more than that. She considerably broadens our considerations of black aesthetics and brings the discussion forward through the subsequent stages of criticism to a meditation upon what black aesthetics and poetics can mean for us in the twenty-first century. This is one of the best first books of criticism I've ever read, a book easily the equal of work done by much more experienced and celebrated scholars. Aldon Nielsen, author, "Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation""

""Renegade Poetics" would be a valuable work even if it only added substantially to the now, finally, bourgeoning discourse reconsidering the Black Arts Movement of the late 1960's and early 1970's. Evie Shockley, however, does far more than that. She considerably broadens our considerations of black aesthetics and brings the discussion forward through the subsequent stages of criticism to a meditation upon what black aesthetics and poetics can mean for us in the twenty-first century. This is one of the best first books of criticism I've ever read, a book easily the equal of work done by much more experienced and celebrated scholars."--Aldon Nielsen, author, "Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation"