{"product_id":"field-study-paperback","title":"Field Study - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChet'la Sebree\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2020 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLayered, complex, and infinitely compelling, Chet'la Sebree's \u003ci\u003eField Study\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eMemorial Drive\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChet'la Sebree's \u003ci\u003eField Study\u003c\/i\u003e is a genre-bending exploration of black womanhood and desire, written as a lyrical, surprisingly humorous, and startlingly vulnerable prose poem\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eI am society's eraser shards--bits used to fix other people's sh*t, then discarded. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eSomehow still a wet nurse, from actual babes to Alabama special elections.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSeeking 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInterspersing 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA poem of love, heartbreak, womanhood, art, sex, Blackness, and America--sometimes all at once--\u003ci\u003eField Study\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChet'la Sebree \u003c\/b\u003eis the director of the Stadler Center for Poetry and Literary Arts at Bucknell University and the author of \u003ci\u003eMistress\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2018 New Issues Poetry Prize and nominated for an NAACP Image Award in 2019. She earned an MFA in creative writing, with a focus in poetry, from American University, and has received fellowships from the Delaware Division of the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, Hedgebrook, Yaddo, Vermont Studio Center, and Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies. Her poetry has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuernica\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePleiades\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.5 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42100938997895,"sku":"9780374539023","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/adf4951684b9e5311d3497b032f89e14.webp?v=1732389301","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/field-study-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}