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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9781556592515
Edition: First Printing
ISBN: 1556592515
Label: Copper Canyon Press
Manufacturer: Copper Canyon Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 80
Publication Date: October 01, 2006
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Studio: Copper Canyon Press
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“Belieu’s poems use a vernacular of their own to suggest a noir world of erotic innuendo and red lights waiting to be run.”âNeon
Black Box is a raw, intense book, fueled by a devastating infidelity. With her marriage shattered, Erin Belieu sifts the wreckage for the black box, the record of disaster. Propelled by a blistering and clarifying rage, she composed at fever pitch and produced riveting, unforgettable poems, such as the ten-part sequence “In the Red Dress I Wear to Your Funeral”:
I root through your remains,
looking for the black box. Nothing left
but glossy chunks, a pimp’s platinum
tooth clanking inside the urn. I play you
over and over, my beloved conspiracy,
my personal Zapruder filmâlook. . .
When Belieu was invited by the Poetry Foundation to keep a public journal on their new website, readers responded to the Black Box poems, calling them “dark, twisted, disturbed, and disturbing” and Belieu a “frightening genius.” All true.
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The sharp-tongued poems in Erin Belieu's third book are as topically adventurous and linguistically playful as those that appear in "Infanta" and "One Above & One Below." On the whole, though, this book is significantly more intense, more raw and uncompromising, than Belieu's previous works. Many of the poems seem to be the product of some emotional bombs--unexpected motherhood and marital infidelity, in particular--that exploded in the not-too-distant past, strewing hard shrapnel through the poet's ... Read More
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Along with Josh Bell, this is one of the few poets that can take the natural depravity of human beings and spin it so many ways; it can be funny, sad, loathing, contempuous, bitter, bitter-sweet, etc., but it never goes unearned and each poem seems to stem from some form of loss or injustice. Any poet that can take the darkest side of human nature and "tell it slant," as they say, to make you laugh or sit in a sublime kind of shock is worth reading... so few poets can make "silk out of a sow's ear."
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Before I reveal what I think of Erin Belieu's poetry, a confession: We were classmates once. It was in graduate school, where our interactions were so infrequent, they barely qualified us to identify each other in a police lineup. So understand that I have no incentive beyond the quality of her work to either praise or condemn it. That said, Erin's poetry is stunning. I'll throw out more clichés -- raw, bold, witty, honest, haunting, powerful, dynamic, illuminating. It's so good that if Milton ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9781556592515
Edition: First Printing
ISBN: 1556592515
Label: Copper Canyon Press
Manufacturer: Copper Canyon Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 80
Publication Date: October 01, 2006
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Studio: Copper Canyon Press