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Blue Opening: Poems

Blue Opening: Poems - Paperback

by Chet'la Sebree
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Availability:In StockContributor:Chet'la SebreePublish date:2025-09-16Pages:96
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Tin House BooksISBN-13:9781963108460ISBN-10:1963108469UPC:9781963108460Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:African American & Black, Death, Grief, Loss, FamilySize:9.10 x 6.20 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.3Product ID:SCJAQ7R074
Blue Opening, Chet'la Sebree's brilliant, illuminating poetry collection, grapples with origins--of illness, of language, of the universe--as the speaker contemplates whether she, too, can be a site of origin through motherhood. Navigating chronic health challenges alongside grief and questions about the nature of knowledge and religion, she searches personal history and the cosmos for answers to the unknowable.

With startling clarity and vivid tenderness, Blue Opening calls into question not only where to begin, but how to create, across thirty-two poems that press the fluid boundaries of form through sonnets, prose poems, odes, and two unforgettable poetic sequences. As the speaker traverses loss, possibility, and the choice, or often the lack of choice, in the direction of her future, she determines to press forward even as she is "unsure of what shape this language should take / and hulling, from blue rock, faith."

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Tin House BooksISBN-13:9781963108460ISBN-10:1963108469UPC:9781963108460Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:African American & Black, Death, Grief, Loss, FamilySize:9.10 x 6.20 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.3Product ID:SCJAQ7R074
Sebree, Chet'la: - Chet'la Sebree is the author of Field Study, winner of the 2020 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and Mistress. Raised in the mid-Atlantic, she earned an MFA in creative writing, with a focus in poetry, from American University. Chet'la's poetry and prose have appeared in Colorado Review, Kenyon Review, Lit Hub, Pleiades, Guernica, Poetry International, and The Yale Review. Currently, Chet'la is an assistant professor of English at George Washington University and teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Randolph College. Her debut essay collection is forthcoming from The Dial Press in 2026.
Publisher: Tin House Books

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