The Ferguson Report: An Erasure
By Nicole Sealey
By Nicole Sealey
By Nicole Sealey
By Nicole Sealey
-
$29.00
Aug 15, 2023 | ISBN 9780593535998
-
Aug 15, 2023 | ISBN 9780593536001
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE
Field of Light and Shadow
Tanya
The Asking
Fever of Unknown Origin
To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness
The Perfect Sound
Say It Loud!
Balladz
Selected Poems of James Merrill
Praise
“Redacting the report word by word, letter by letter, Sealey excavates larger lyric insights about American life from its account of police bias and brutality.”
—The New Yorker, “The Best Books of 2023”
“Peeling back the clinical language of the official government document, poet Sealey creates ‘lifted poems’ that capture the collective rage of the nation, lay bare the visceral grief, and imagine a new vision of liberation.”
—Oprah Daily, “The Best Conversation-Starting Books of 2023”
“Nicole Sealey’s The Ferguson Report: An Erasure comes to us first in fragments—at times not even syllables, ah or id—but as a feeling, the unsayable constructing itself as we read along or listen. The paced rhythm is almost painfully made as if fleshy blips on the heart meter—a ghostly master text beneath. One feels subliminal truths cumulate out of a visceral engagement, and then the emergence of eight inspired poems.”
—Yusef Komunyakaa, author of Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021
21 Books You’ve Been Meaning to Read
Just for joining you’ll get personalized recommendations on your dashboard daily and features only for members.
Find Out More Join Now Sign In