Nicole Sealey Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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author of THE FERGUSON REPORT: AN ERASURE, ORDINARY BEAST and THE ANIMAL AFTER WHOM OTHER ANIMALS ARE NAMED

Facts about the Moon: Poems
Dorianne Laux
21/31: FACTS ABOUT THE MOON by Dorianne Laux From “Her First:” “Whoever he had harmed or helped, / loved or failed to loved, finally, mercifully, / of no importance now as she watched over / the last minutes of his anonymous life.” #TheSealeyChallenge #TheSealeyChallenge2022 https://t.co/hMCozgnLfA
Paperback, 2007
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sonnets: Edited with notes and introd. by Thomas Tyler
William Shakespeare
28/31: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: COMPLETE SONNETS “Be not self-will’d, for thou art much too fair / To be Death’s conquest and make worms thine heir.” #TheSealeyChallenge #TheSealeyChallenge2022 https://t.co/UVj1XxEWxc
Paperback, 2019
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Play Lists
Jessica Mookherjee
18/31: PLAY LISTS by Jessica Mookherjee From “Rolling Thunder:” “*I guess that’s why they call it the blues;* you said as you walked away, / *the song I’ve written for you, it’s a bit like that.* I was too stoned to stand.” #TheSealeyChallenge #TheSealeyChallenge2022 https://t.co/TlaDHb4bbi
Paperback, 2021
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Daniel Boone's Window: Poems
Matthew Wimberley
17/31: DANIEL BOONE’S WINDOW by Matthew Wimberley From “I Receive His Body in a Velvet Bag with White Rope and Gold Embroidery:” “…The rain outside / is loud enough to burst out laughing / and enter the night.” #TheSealeyChallenge #TheSealeyChallenge2022 #LSUP https://t.co/9zq0n4sku1
Paperback, 2021
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Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes
Nicky Beer
9/31: REAL PHONIES AND GENUINE FAKES by Nicky Beer From “Specimen #17:” “…we can’t choose the feast / that will sustain us—our only power / is to greet the terrible and joyous / alike with our souls’ most ravenous yes.” #TheSealeyChallenge #TheSealeyChallenge2022 https://t.co/x6HVJOmOUY
Paperback, 2022
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The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
Amanda Gorman
14/31: THE HILL WE CLIMB by Amanda Gorman “In this truth, in this faith, we trust. / For while we have our eyes on the future, / History has its eyes on us.” #TheSealeyChallenge #TheSealeyChallenge2022 https://t.co/QhHsTi3FOm
Hardcover, 2021
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Rose
Li-Young Lee
19/31: ROSE by Li-Young Lee From “Always a Rose:” “My arms and legs are the rain in its opulence, / my face my mother’s face. / My hair is also hers. / She inherited it from the horses / who recovered it from the night.” #TheSealeyChallenge #TheSealeyChallenge2022 https://t.co/4JxS4o0fcg
Paperback, 1993
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The Venus Hottentot: Poems
Elizabeth Alexander
11/31: THE VENUS HOTTENTOT by Elizabeth Alexander From the title poem: “Monsieur Cuvier investigates / between my legs, poking, prodding, / sure of his hypothesis. / I half expect him to pull silk / scarves from inside me, paper poppies, / then a rabbit!” #TheSealeyChallenge https://t.co/XWqopE8wO3
Paperback, 2004
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Ante body
Marwa Helal
3/31: ANTE BODY by Marwa Helal From “Pretend Not to Know What You Know:” “…napoleon got a complex in his name / western psych (read: sike!) wants you to think it was because of his height / but really, it’s because he was white” #TheSealeyChallenge #TheSealeyChallenge2022 https://t.co/QB6in0EVo5
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bluest Nude: Poems
Ama Codjoe
@authorKQ Bluest Nude by Ama Codjoe, and selling healing vibes your way.
Paperback, 2022
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