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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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