Ordinary Beast: Poems by Nicole Sealey

Ordinary Beast: Poems

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Ordinary Beast: Poems by Nicole Sealey

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Ordinary Beast: Poems

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ONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'S TOP 10 POETRY BOOKS OF FALL 2017

NPR'S MOST ANTICIPATED POETRY BOOKS OF 2017

A striking, full-length debut collection from Virgin Islands-born poet Nicole Sealey

The existential magnitude, deep intellect, and playful subversion of St. Thomas-born, Florida-raised poet Nicole Sealey's work is restless in its empathic, succinct examination and lucid awareness of what it means to be human.

The ranging scope of inquiry 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.

Book Details
Publisher:
Ecco Press
ISBN:
9780062688811
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
80
Authors:
Nicole Sealey
Published Date:
2018-09-04
Language:
English
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About Nicole Sealey

The Ferguson Report: An Erasure (Knopf, 2023) reworks the Department of Justice's investigation into the killing of Michael Brown, erasing the official text into eight poems; it won the 2024 OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry, and an excerpt earned the 2021 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. Nicole Sealey, born in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, and raised in Apopka, Florida, holds an MLA in Africana studies from the University of South Florida and an MFA from New York University. Ordinary Beast (Ecco, 2017), her first collection, was a finalist for the PEN Open Book and Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards. A chapbook, The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named (Northwestern University Press, 2016), won the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize.

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