PositivePoetry FoundationThe book-length poem, an \'auto-ethnography in poetry,\' is playfully aware of its own genre-bending fluidity, a casual narrative formed by its many notes, retractions, and revisions, marking out the scathing impossibility for any single objective reading to open up the past ... we encounter a fieldwork that is inflected—or invaded—by its unstinting array of references and quotations ... Sebree’s open field carries us from psychic site to site, from a bed to a bar to a school, asking us what it means to unapologetically survey, to revisit ... This episodic interrogation of the self is smart and current, but the book also feels like it is missing some further unknown variable, perhaps a wildness at the level of the poetic line. As a study toward illegibility Field Study succeeds in embracing the inconclusive histories, flaws, and dreams of subjecthood[.]
