
Field Notes from the Flood Zone
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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.
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Person
Heather Sellers is the author of four poetry collections: Field Notes from the Flood Zone (BOA, 2022); The Present State of the Garden (Lynx House Press, 2021); The Boys I Borrow (New Issues Press, 2007), which was a finalist for the James Laughlin Award; and Drinking Girls and Their Dresses (Ahsahta Press, 2002). She is also the author of the memoir You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know (Riverhead, 2011), which was an O, the Oprah Magazine Book of the Month Club Choice and an Editor's Choice at the New York Times, and the craft book The Practice of Creative Writing (Macmillan St. Martins Bedford, 2021), now in its fourth edition. Her writing has been featured in numerous publications and anthologies, including Best American Essays, Creative Nonfiction, Good Housekeeping, The New York Times, O, the Oprah Magazine, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Reader's Digest, The Sun, and Tin House. She has been awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a residency at The MacDowell Colony. She teaches poetry and nonfiction in the MFA program at the University of South Florida. A native Floridian, she divides her time between St. Petersburg, Florida, and Manhattan. For more information about Heather Sellers, visit heathersellers.com.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- - Part One -
- Storm Season Opens
- Virtual Life
- Mid-June, by Mid-Morning
- Rain
- Cathedral
- Saturday
- Sinking
- Flash Flood
- Prone
- Evacuation
- Museum (Zone A)
- Threat
- North Coast
- After the Storm
- Home
- Protection
- High Tide
- Between Storms
- A Cut
- Pool
- Longing, Wading
- Careful, Unfurling
- But Why Do We Live Here?
- - Part Two -
- Fun for Everyone Involved
- My Mother Said
- My Father Said
- - Part Three -
- Thunderbird Motel
- Florida
- The First Time I Went to His House
- Dinner on the Patio, December
- After the Gala
- Aftermaths
- Category Five
- Still Life, Blountstown Gas Station
- Transubstantiation at the Aquatic Life Research Center
- Dry Season
- Translation
- Drown
- My Viper
- Vortex
- Florida Gold
- From Florida
- Coming Soon! New Home + Pool & Spa
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Colophon
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