Sears Alexis Sears

Out of Order (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A debut collection featuring formally diverse poems that address topics from misogyny and mental health to race and identity. Alexis Sears s debut collection, Out of Order, is a collage of unapologetic intimacy, risk-taking vulnerability, and unwavering candor. A biracial millennial woman, Sears navigates the challenges of growing out of girlhood and into womanhood with its potential dangers, interrogating the male gaze, beauty standards, and confidence and identity. Pop culture references run through the collection, with rock icons David Bowie and Prince and poets like Kenneth Koch offering windows into desire and adaptation. In these poems, Sears works through heavy topics, such as loneliness, mental illness, chronic pain, the legacies of race and racism, and the aftermath of a father s suicide. As she writes, I m learning something every ravishing day / and none of it is easy. This young poet demonstrates an uncommon mastery of craft, writing in forms including the sonnet redouble, sestina, canzone, and villanelle. With all her linguistic skills, Sears s work remains approachable, offering readers a striking blend of honesty, humor, anguish, joy, and surprise. Drawing influence from contemporary poets like Mark Jarman, Erica Dawson, and Tiana Clark, Sears cuts a path of her own. Out of Order was the 2021 winner of the Donald Justice Poetry Prize.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Autumn House Press
• Seitenzahl: 104
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781637680339
• Artikelnr.: 70880874

Autorenporträt

Alexis Sears lives in Northern California, where she teaches sixth-grade English. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Cortland Review, Hopkins Review, Cimarron Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, and elsewhere.