Field – Reads A Lot

Discovering Anti-Muses in Chet’la Sebree’s “Field Study” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsJune 30, 2021 by Laura Evers

[ad_1] If I could only have one book on my coffee table, it would be Chet’la Sebree’s Field Study, winner of the 2020 James Laughlin Award. Field Study skillfully synthesizes writing genres and resists general categorization, upending the conventions of poetry, memoir, and autoethnography with the author admitting that “some of the characters here are … Read more

Sonic Relationships and Semantic Rhythms in “Field Music” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsOctober 16, 2020 by Ryan Asmussen

[ad_1] Alexandria Hall’s National Poetry Series-winning book, Field Music, possesses a poetic maturity born less from extensive experience than from piercing vision and sensitivity. Hall, a finalist in the 2018 “Narrative 30 Below Contest” has lived some, undoubtedly, but somehow manages to sidestep the typical language registers of youth—the naiveté, the callowness, the arbitrary ambiguity. … Read more