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Sebree, Chet'la.
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Women, Black -- Race identity -- Poetry.
Women, Black -- Poetry.
Race relations -- Poetry.
American poetry -- Black authors.
American poetry -- Women authors.
American poetry -- 21st century.
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Sebree, Chet'la.
Women, Black -- Race identity -- Poetry.
Women, Black -- Poetry.
Race relations -- Poetry.
American poetry -- Black authors.
American poetry -- Women authors.
American poetry -- 21st century.
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Field
study
/ Chet'la Sebree.
by
Sebree, Chet'la.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Call #:
811.6 S443f
Subjects
Women, Black -- Race identity -- Poetry.
Women, Black -- Poetry.
Race relations -- Poetry.
American poetry -- Black authors.
American poetry -- Women authors.
American poetry -- 21st century.
Series
Sebree, Chet'la, FSG originals
FSG originals.
ISBN:
9780374539023 (trade pbk)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
161 p. ; 19 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
"A lyric poem meditating on sexuality, desire, womanhood, and blackness"--Publisher.
Layered, complex, and infinitely compelling, Chet'la Sebree's
Field
Study
is a daring exploration of the self and our interactions with others -- a meditation on desire, race, loss, and survival.--Natasha Trethewey, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Memorial Drive. Chet'la Sebree's
Field
Study
is a genre-bending exploration of black womanhood and desire, written as a lyrical, surprisingly humorous, and startlingly vulnerable prose poem...Seeking to understand the fallout of her relationship with a white man, the poet Chet'la Sebree attempts a
field
study
of herself. Scientifically,
field
studies are objective collections of raw data, devoid of emotion. But during the course of a stunning lyric poem, Sebree's control over her own
field
study
unravels as she attempts to understand the depth of her feelings in response to the data of her life. The result is a singular and provocative piece of writing, one that is formally inventive, playfully candid, and soul-piercingly sharp. Interspersing her reflections with Tweets, quips from TV characters, and excerpts from the Black thinkers -- Audre Lorde, Maya Angelou, Tressie McMillan Cottom -- that inspire her, Sebree analyzes herself through the lens of a society that seems uneasy, at best, with her very presence. She grapples with her attraction to, and rejection of, whiteness and white men; probes the malicious manifestation of colorism and misogynoir throughout American history and media; and struggles with, judges, and forgives herself when she has more questions than answers. 'Even as I accrue these notes,' Sebree writes, 'I'm still not sure I've found the pulse.' A poem of love, heartbreak, womanhood, art, sex, Blackness, and America -- sometimes all at once --
Field
Study
throbs with feeling, searing and tender. With uncommon sensitivity and precise storytelling, Sebree makes meaning out of messiness and malaise, breathing life into a scientific
study
like no other."--Publisher.
Awards:
Winner of the James Laughlin Award, Academy of American Poets, 2020.
Genre:
American poetry.
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