Blue opening : poems / Chet'la Sebree.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sebree, Chet'la, author.

Standardized Title:

Blue opening (Compilation)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grief--Poetry.

Grief.

Chronic diseases--Poetry.

Chronic diseases.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

74 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First US edition.

Place of Publication:

Portland, Oregon : Tin House, 2025.

Summary:

"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 the shape this language should take / and hulling, from blue rock, faith.'"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781963108460

1963108469

OCLC:

1495042507