Field Notes from the Flood Zone

Heather Sellers author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:BOA Editions, Limited

Published:9th Jun '22

Should be back in stock very soon

Field Notes from the Flood Zone cover

  • Advanced review copies and press materials will be sent to a targeted list of 120-150 reviewers in February 2022. Additional ARCs available by request: [email protected].
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  • Drawn from daily observations, Heather Sellers's poems ponder the changing Florida Coast as the population swells and the waters rise.

    From the frontlines of climate catastrophe, a poet watches the sea approach her doorstep.

    Born and raised in Florida, Heather Sellers grew up in an extraordinarily difficult home. The natural world provided a life-giving respite from domestic violence. She found, in the tropical flora and fauna, great beauty and meaningful connection. She made her way by trying to learn the name of every flower, every insect, every fish and shell and tree she encountered.

    That world no longer exists.

    In this collection of poems, Sellers laments its loss, while observing, over the course of a year, daily life of the people and other animals around her, on her street, and in her low-lying coastal town, where new high rises soar into the sky as the storm clouds gather with increasing intensity and the future of the community—and seemingly life as we know it—becomes more and more uncertain.

    Sprung from her daily observation journals, haunted by ghosts from the past, Field Notes from the Flood Zone is a double love letter: to a beautiful and fragile landscape, and to the vulnerable young girl who grew up in that world. It is an elegy for the two great shaping forces in a life, heartbreaking family struggle and a collective lost treasure, our stunning, singular, desecrated Florida, and all its remnant beauty.

    “Reading Heather Sellers’ new book of poems, I am by turns dazzled, harrowed, fascinated, afraid, and then my mouth falls open coming upon an image or a phrase so lovely and unexpected that I have to close my eyes and let it surround me. Field Notes from the Flood Zone is a book so spectacularly original that you don't just read these poems, you steep yourself in them. What a triumph!”
    —Abigail Thomas, author of Safekeeping

    ISBN: 9781950774579

    Dimensions: unknown

    Weight: unknown

    88 pages