Give A Girl Chaos (See What She Can Do)

• Give A Girl Chaos (See What She Can Do)
• Price: $16.00
• Give a Girl Chaos (and see what she can do)
• Price $16.00
• Heidi Seaborn
• 110 pages | PB
• ISBN 978-1-7320091-4-1
• LCCN 2018956227
• March 15, 2019

MEET THE AUTHOR

We asked Heidi Seaborn two questions. Why did you write Give a Girl Chaos, and why do you write poetry?

“I wrote Give a Girl Chaos as a survival guide for challenging times, in the language that we crave now—poetry.”–Heidi Seaborn

“I write poetry because it’s the most vulnerable and visceral form of communication, engaging the world with lyrical bridges of understanding and empathy.”–Heidi Seaborn

Give a Girl Chaos (and see what she can do) is a survival guide for chaotic times and lives told through poems that ache with violence, beauty and ultimately joy.

AWARDS

Eric Hoffer Award Finalist, and Wheelbarrow Prize

REVIEWS

Foreword Reviews
[PANK]
Tupelo Quarterly
Poetry International
Rhino

Give a Girl Chaos is also available as an eBook

ABOUT

Give a Girl Chaos (see what she can do) is a survival guide for challenging times, written in the language we crave now—poetry. Heidi Seaborn ‘s stunning debut collection is a lyric guide to harnessing chaos—from a world swirling in terrorism, war, natural disaster to the chaos of heart, home, body and family. Through poems that ache with beauty and violence, Give a Girl Chaos (see what she can do) reveals that by controlling chaos, we can achieve resilience, power and ultimately joy. –

PRAISE

“Vulnerable, visceral, meditative.”
– Maggie Smith, Author, Good Bones

“In this striking collection of pain and joy…readers will discover a hidden gem inside every poem.”
– [PANK]

“A major surprise in Seaborn’s biography is that she’s only been writing for two years. Given her command of form and language, this is hard to believe.”
– Tupelo Quarterly

“Heidi Seaborn’s Give a Girl Chaos (see what she can do) is a startling first collection…Deftly lyrical, she seeks language as her compass and verbs as her luggage.”
– Jane Wong, Author, Overpour

“Seaborn’s poems take us places and expose us to thoughts we’ve never quite seen in a poem before…This is the power that Seaborn has — an eagerness to reveal new ways to see a world that feels as ancient as language itself. We’re glad that she’s, finally, arrived.”
– Seattle Review of Books

“Accomplished, smart, beautiful and affecting poems…writing at the highest level.”
– Jeffrey Levine, Tupelo Press

“Seaborn is triumphant and resounding about women surviving chaos. She shows us that the girl who has been through chaos can catch the joy in every moment and overflow with love. And she can make powerful art.”
– Compulsive Reader

“Give a Girl Chaos wields everyday language with immense skill…[the] poems encompass the range of human emotion…masterful…Give a Girl Chaos eloquently and effortlessly exposes the vulnerability and beauty in all of us.”
– Foreword Reviews

“Give a Girl Chaos…a lush poetic choreography of deft and moving lyric-narrative intimations—varied in form, rich in sensual detail, and rife with both harrowing and ecstatic twists of fate, discovery, and human deliberation. Give a Girl Chaos triumphs…Lucky for us, we get to see just what Seaborn can do.”
– Poetry International

“A globetrotting executive turned poet, Heidi Seaborn tells the story of a girl finding her path and a woman, her power through poems that engage even the occasional poetry reader. If you read only one book of poetry this year, make it Give a Girl Chaos (and see what she can do).”
– Pattie Sellers, Founder, Fortune’s Most Powerful Women