All Blue So Late: Poems - Softcover

Laura Swearingen-Steadwell (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810136341 ISBN 13: 9780810136342

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2017

Synopsis

All Blue So Late presents the panorama of a young woman’s life as she struggles to come to terms with her place in the world. These poems look to race, gender, and American identity, plumbing the individual’s attendant grief, rage, and discomfort with these constructs.

The skeleton of this fine collection is a series of direct addresses to the author’s fourteen-year-old self, caught at the moment between girlhood and womanhood, when her perspective on everything suddenly changes. Swearingen-Steadwell’s poetic adventures through worlds within and without reveal the restlessness of the seeker. They offer unabashed tenderness to anyone who reckons with solitude, and chases joy.

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About the Author

LAURA SWEARINGEN-STEADWELL is the author of How to Seduce a White Boy in Ten Easy Steps. A Cave Canem Fellow and a graduate of Warren Wilson's M.F.A. Program for Writers, she was a finalist in 2010's Women of the World Poetry Slam.

Edition details

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810136341
• ISBN 13: 9780810136342
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80