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Everyone Knows your Mother is a Witch – Rivka Galchen (2021) and 1919 by Eve Ewing (2019)

Everyone Knows your Mother is a Waitch by Rivka Galchen

1919 by Eve Ewing

September 8, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Everyone Knows your Mother is a Witch It’s fair to look at this cover, font, and image and make some assumptions about what you’re about to read. I had the joy and probably making those assumptions, but not actually looking up what this book was about. I had read Rivka Galchen’s pillow book book and really enjoyed it so I was always already going to read this one. While the presentation of the book might not match its exact subject, the tone surely does. It’s […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: Eve Ewing, Rivka Galchen

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:382 · Genres: Fiction, Poetry · Tags: Eve Ewing, Rivka Galchen ·
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Black girl poetic magic

December 30, 2017 by teresaelectro 1 Comment

Electric Arches is collection of poetry by Eve L. Ewing. Her poems muse on the black experience. She reveals painful moments of racism she encounters and add in handwritten font her imagined replies to the N-word. She writes odes to her musical heroes in “Appletree [on black womanhood, from and to Erykah Badu] and “On Prince”. Each poem describes how their music touched her soul. She uplifts the ordinary with her words adding a fantastical gloss of wonder. “so in this world, grease is a compliment, no […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: black experience, black girl magic, black speculative fiction, cannonball read 9, cbr9, Electric Arches, Erykah Badu, Eve Ewing, Eve L Ewing, hair love, magical realism, music, poetry, Prince, Racism, shea butter

teresaelectro's CBR9 Review No:13 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Poetry · Tags: black experience, black girl magic, black speculative fiction, cannonball read 9, cbr9, Electric Arches, Erykah Badu, Eve Ewing, Eve L Ewing, hair love, magical realism, music, poetry, Prince, Racism, shea butter ·
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