Alexis Sears

Out of Order (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Out of Order, winner of the 2021 Donald Justice Poetry Prize, is the debut collection of Alexis Sears, featuring formally diverse poems that address topics from misogyny and mental health to race and identity.

In this collage of unapologetic intimacy, risk-taking vulnerability, and unwavering candor, a biracial millennial woman 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 redoublé, 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Autumn House Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781637680339
• Artikelnr.: 70880874

Autorenporträt

Out of Order is Alexis Sears's first book. Alexis received her BA in Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University and her M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work has been widely published, including in the Cortland Review, Hopkins Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Northwest Review, and Poet Lore. She was a scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference in 2019. Currently, she teaches 9th grade English in Oakland, California.