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Blue Opening: Poems
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ISBN10: 1963108469
ISBN13: 9781963108460
Publisher: Tin House
Published: Sep 16 2025
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781963108460
Publisher: Tin House
Published: Sep 16 2025
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Longlisted for the 2026 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry
Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry Finalist
Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Poetry Finalist
A profound poetic talent.--Ada Limón 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.
Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry Finalist
Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Poetry Finalist
A profound poetic talent.--Ada Limón 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.
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