A review by sophiejuhlin
Semiautomatic by Evie Shockley

3.0

Some excellent, absolutely beautiful and wrenching poems here (“topsy suite”, “refrain”, “sex trafficking incidents...”) peppered with oddly placed and frankly ho hum poems (“mirror and canvas”, “one act play”, “the twins”). Maybe I’m finding it hard to connect all these parts within one arc, but I feel like there are at LEAST two books within this whole work.