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Longlisted for the 2026 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Poetry Finalist “A profound poetic talent.”–Ada LimónBlue 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.”
Author: Chet’la Sebree
Publisher: Tin House
Published: 9/16/2025
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.3 lbs
Size: 9.1″ H x 6.2″ L x 0.4″ W
ISBN: 9781963108460
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