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Black Box
Paperback
Publisher Price: $19.00
ISBN13: 9781556592515
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: Oct 1 2006
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.40 Depth: 7.40
Language: English
Awards: L.A. Times Book Prize
Belieu's poems use a vernacular of their own to suggest a noir world of erotic innuendo and red lights waiting to be run.--Neon
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 film--look. . .
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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