Ordinary Beast by Nicole Sealey Sean Street This is a story about

This is a story about a man executed by the state for saying things they didn’t want to hear

covering a greater chronological sweep and international range than any previous anthology of its kind

Michelle Diaz

with remarkable music and clarity

whose focus is unsparing

Ordinary Beast by Nicole Sealey Sean Street This is a story about"In this brilliant debut, clarity is ushered through form, strutting its way into life, into our lives." Claudia Rankine"The sorceress Sealey serves up an impossible cento that punches the daylight from your chest. Nothing ordinary here. But beast? Yeah, that's it. This thing has teeth." Patricia Smith A poet of existential magnitude, deep intellect, and playful subversion, St. Thomas born, Florida raised Nicole Sealey writes poems that are restless