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Electric Arches can be an imaginative exploration of African american girlhood and womanhood through poetry, aesthetic art, and narrative prose. Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic, Eve L. Ewing's narrative needs us from the pavements of 1990s Chicago to the unspecified future, deftly navigating the limitations of space, time, and truth. Ewing imagines familiar numbers in wonderful circumstances - blues story Koko Taylor is a tall-tale hero; LeBron James journeys through time and encounters his teenage self. She identifies each day objects - mane moisturizer, a spiral notebook - as precious icons. Her visual art is spare, frolicsome, and poignant - a cereal box decoder ring that allows the wearer to understand what Black girls are saying; a teacher's angry, subversive communication scrawled on the chalkboard. Electric Arches invites fresh interactions about race, gender, the city, id, and the pleasure and pain of growing up. Eve L. Ewing is a copy writer, scholar, designer, and educator from Chicago. Her work has came out in Poetry, The New Yorker, New Republic, The Land, The Atlantic, and many other publications. She is a sociologist at the University of Chicago College of Community Service Administration.
