SEMIAUTOMATIC

SEMIAUTOMATICFrom the press: Poetry that acts as a fierce and loving resistance to violence Winner of Hurston Wright Foundation's Legacy Award for Poetry, given by the Zora Neale Hurston Richard Wright Foundation, 2018 Finalist for the Pultizer Prize for poetry, 2019 Art can't shield our bodies or stabilize the earth's climate, but Evie Shockley's semiautomatic insists that it can feed the spirit and reawaken the imagination. The volume responds primarily to the

Her story focuses on the lives of the Sayles family: Caroline

Pritchard’s second and final book

Art and cooking have much in common

Barbaro's poems are written in an equally charming and idiosyncratic style that mixes vernacular and lyrical idioms

Life suddenly seems to have more promise for the husband and wife -- the days have more light and color

how it falls

whose loneliness in his new world is emblematic of human existence

composed in the seventh century B

That adolescence has happened and is about to happen but is never that which is happening

they are brave enough to go forward into the uncharted waters

Translated from French by Claudia Zoe Bedrick

Pine processionary caterpillars with mysterious group habits