num_pages: 90
description: 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. Ewings narrative takes us from the streets of 1990s Chicago to an unspecified future deftly navigating the boundaries of space time and reality. Ewing imagines familiar figures in magical circumstancesblues legend Koko Taylor is a tall-tale hero; LeBron James travels through time and encounters his teenage self. She identifies everyday objectshair moisturizer a spiral notebookas precious icons. Her visual art is spare playful and poignanta cereal box decoder ring that allows the wearer to understand what Black girls are saying; a teachers angry subversive message scrawled on the chalkboard. Electric Arches invites fresh conversations about race gender the city identity and the joy and pain of growing up. Eve L. Ewing is a writer scholar artist and educator from Chicago. Her work has appeared in Poetry The New Yorker New Republic The Nation The Atlantic  and many other publications. She is a sociologist at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration.
language: English
title: Electric Arches
publisher: Haymarket Books