"Exquisite." --Ava Duvernay "Striking and visionary. a stunning debut." --Publishers Weekly Starred Review "In her genre-defying debut, Eve Ewing is imagining a future of hope and safety for all the kids of Chicago." --Chicago Reader "Electric Arches is a complicated love letter to Chicago. a reminder that magic is made of asphalt and chain-link fences, the lives we painfully live in our childhoods where imagination offers us bodily escape." --The Millions "A formally inventive portrait of blackness, of womanhood, Electric Arches delivers both hope and brutal honesty. an inspired debut that reaches beyond the inscribed to the imagined.

" --Guernica "Spellbinding. these poems will change you for the better. They will make you whole." --Well Read Black Girl "A fiercely imaginative celebration of black girlhood and the power of poetry to (re)create the past, the future, and a path for surviving the present." --Literary Hub "A groundbreaking collection of poetry, short fiction, and art from one of Chicago's cultural icons. Electric Arches will go down as one of the best and most iconic poetry books about Chicago.ever." --Chicago Review of Books "Homegrown hero Eve Ewing is the artist and educator that Chicago needs right now.

" --WGN "A tender letter to black youth." --Pacific Standard "A powerful revelation." --Brightest Young Things "Ewing illuminates difficult truths with a type of grace that enthralls and informs." --Fortune "Eve Ewing is one of Chicago's most visible cultural icons." --Chicago Magazine "Eve L. Ewing tries to imagine a way out of this mess with poetry and prose." --Newcity "An intimate look at the changing Chicago landscape." --The Lily (Washington Post) "Despite the poems' slippery relationship with time and space, their truth is rooted firmly in the America of 2017.

" --The Awl.