Black Box

ISBN: 1556592515

Author: Belieu, Erin

Condition: New

Belieus poems use a vernacular of their own to suggest a noir world of erotic innuendo and red lights waiting to be run.-NeonBlack 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 leftbut glossy chunks, a pimps platinumtooth clanking inside the urn. I play youover 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.