Ordinary Beast

AvNicole Sealey

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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A poet of existential magnitude, deep intellect and playful subversion, America’s Nicole Sealey writes poems that are restless in their empathic, succinct examination and lucid awareness of what it means to be human.The ranging scope of enquiry undertaken in Ordinary Beast – at times philosophical, emotional, and experiential – is evident in each thrilling twist of image by the poet. In brilliant, often ironic lines that move from meditation to matter of fact in a single beat, Sealey’s voice is always awake to the natural world, to the pain and punishment of existence, to the origins and demises of humanity. Exploring notions of race, sexuality, gender, myth, history and embodiment with profound understanding, Sealey’s is a poetry that refuses to turn a blind eye or deny. It is a poetry of daunting knowledge.Ordinary Beast was first published in the US by Ecco in 2017, and was a finalist the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and for the PEN Open Book Award. This first UK edition of her debut collection is published by Bloodaxe in 2023 at the same time as her second book of poetry, The Ferguson Report: An Erasure, an excerpt from which won the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem in 2021.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-09-21
Mått:156 x 234 x 8 mm
Vikt:150 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:72
Förlag:Bloodaxe Books Ltd
ISBN:9781780376653

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Nicole Sealey was born in St Thomas, United States Virgin Islands, and raised in Apopka, Florida. She is the author of Ordinary Beast (Ecco, US, 2017; Bloodaxe Books, UK, 2023), which was a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the PEN Open Book Award, and The Ferguson Report: An Erasure (Alfred A. Knopf, US, & Bloodaxe Books, UK, 2023). Her chapbook, The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named (Northwestern University Press, 2016), was the winner of the 2016 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Prize.Excerpts from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure have appeared in The Nation, The New Yorker, The Paris Review and Poetry London, while ‘Pages 22-29, an excerpt from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure won the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem in 2021.Sealey’s honours include a 2023-2024 Cullman Center Fellowship from the New York Public Library, a Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University and the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from The American Poetry Review, as well as fellowships from the Bogliasco Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.Sealey served as the Executive Director at Cave Canem Foundation from 2017 to 2019. She is a visiting professor at Boston University and teaches in the MFA Writers Workshop in Paris program at New York University.In 2017, she started The Sealey Challenge, an annual online community challenge to read one book of poetry each day for the month of August.

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Though these poems are attuned to their own devastation, they continue unapologetically with their own aspirations.

Innehållsförteckning

13 medical history14 a violence 15 candelabra with heads17 hysterical strength18 legendary19 it’s not ﬁtness, it’s a lifestyle20 happy birthday to me21 the ﬁrst person who will live to be one hundred and ﬁfty years old has already been born22 in igboland♦25 legendary 26 heretofore unuttered27 and 29 cento for the night i said, “i love you”41 virginia is for lovers43 clue 46 c ue 49 unfurnished♦53 imagine sisyphus happy 55 underperforming sonnet overperforming56 legendary 57 an apology for trashing magazines in which you appear 59 Even the Gods60 In Defense of “Candelabra with Heads”61 instead of executions, think death erections62 unframed63 object permanence65 Notes