Blue Opening: Poems by Chet'la Sebree

Blue Opening: Poems

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Blue Opening: Poems

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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."

Book Details
Publisher:
Tin House
ISBN:
9781963108460
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
96
Authors:
Chet'la Sebree
Published Date:
2025-09-16
Language:
English
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About Chet'la Sebree

Chet'la Sebree teaches English at George Washington University. She earned a BA at the University of Richmond in 2010 and an MFA at American University in 2013. Mistress won the New Issues Poetry Prize and came from New Issues Poetry & Prose in 2019, going on to an NAACP Image Award nomination in poetry; Field Study won the 2020 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and appeared from FSG Originals in 2021; Blue Opening followed from Tin House in 2025, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in bisexual poetry and for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She formerly directed the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell.

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