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The Ferguson Report: An Erasure by Nicole Sealey Paperback Book

Description: The Ferguson Report: An Erasure by Nicole Sealey Estimated delivery 4-14 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description Nicole Sealey began making erasures from the US Department of Justices 2015 report detailing bias policing and court practices in the city of Ferguson, Missouri, three years after the murder of Michael Brown by Ferguson police. She revisits that investigation in an act of erasure that reimagines the entire original text as it strips it away. Publisher Description In August 2014, Michael Brown a young, unarmed black man was shot to death by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. What followed was a period of protests and turmoil, culminating in an extensive report that was filed by the Department of Justice detailing biased policing and court practices in the city. It is a document that exposes the racist policies and practices that have become commonplace from disproportionate arrest rates, to flagrant violence directed at the Black community. It is a report that remains as disheartening as it is damning.Now, acclaimed poet Nicole Sealey revisits the investigation in a book that redacts the report, an act of erasure that reimagines the original text as it strips it away. While the full document is visible in the background weighing heavily on the language Sealey has preserved it gives shape and disturbing context to what remains.is an engrossing meditation on one of the most revealing texts of modern times.Nicole Sealey won the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem in 2021 with an excerpt fromThe Ferguson Report: An Erasureearning the judges praise for creating new moments of lyrical beauty and contemplation out of stifling obfuscations to shine a light on all that the report tries to hide, with Shivanee Ramlochan calling it a poem of resonant cultural and social value.(2017), is published in the UK by Bloodaxe at the same time. Author Biography Nicole Sealey was born in St Thomas, United States Virgin Islands, and raised in Apopka, Florida. She is the author of ordinary beast (Ecco, US, 2017; Bloodaxe Books, UK, 2023), which was a finalist for the PEN Open Book Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the ferguson report: an erasure (Alfred A. Knopf, US, & Bloodaxe Books, UK, 2023). Her chapbook, The Animal After Whom Other Animals are Named (Northwestern University Press, 2016), was the winner of the 2016 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Prize. Excerpts from the ferguson report: an erasure have appeared in The Paris Review, The Nation and Poetry London, while Pages 22-29, an excerpt from the ferguson report: an erasure won the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem in 2021. Sealeys honors include the 2021 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, the 2021 Granum Foundation Prize, a Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the Stanley Kunitz Memorial and Poetry International Prizes, as well as fellowships from the Bogliasco Foundation, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, CantoMundo, Cave Canem, The Hermitage Artist Retreat, MacDowell, the National Endowment and New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Poetry Project. Sealey served as the Executive Director at Cave Canem Foundation from 2017 to 2019. She is a visiting professor at Boston University and teaches in the MFA Writers Workshop in Paris program at New York University. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. In 2017, she started The Sealey Challenge, an annual online community challenge to read one book of poetry each day for the month of August. Details ISBN 1780376634 ISBN-13 9781780376639 Title The Ferguson Report: An Erasure Author Nicole Sealey Format Paperback Year 2023 Pages 144 Publisher Bloodaxe Books Ltd GE_Item_ID:144840141; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. 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