Ordinary Beast: Poems

"There are wry, everyday insights in Ordinary Beast, and then there are things poet Nicole Sealey draws out to let sit. The opening poem is a medical history of her family; in another, a friend’s been left the “House In Virginia” after a breakup, and then Sealey recognizes that’s an acronym – before kissing his hands. Throughout this collection, Sealey is a shapeshifter, adding razor sharp humor when the ironies become too much, softening when those ironies begin to grate."