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Black Box

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ISBN-10: 1556592515

ISBN-13: 9781556592515

Edition: 2006

Authors: Erin Belieu

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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."- 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…    
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Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Publication date: 10/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 80
Size: 5.50" wide x 7.50" long x 0.20" tall
Weight: 0.198
Language: English

Susan Aizenberg is assistant professor of english and creative writing at Creighton University and the poetry editor of The Nebraska Review, both in Omaha, Nebraska. Her poems have appeared in places such as Chelsea, ONTHEBUS, Prairie Schooner,and The Philadelphia Inquirer.Her collection of poems, Peru,appeared as part of the Graywolf Press Take 3 Series. She teaches at Creighton University.Erin Belieu, a contributing editor at AGNI, The Kenyon Review,and The Journal, teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Ohio University. Belieu is the author of two poetry collections from Copper Canyon Press, One Above & One Below(2000) and Infanta(1995), which was a selection of the National…    

Of the poet's youth
Epithalamion
The birthmark
Last trip of the island
After reading that the Milky Way is devouring the galaxy of Sagittarius
I heart your dog's head
To an Englishman, lost in Florida
In ecstasy
The last of the gentleman heartbreakers
In the graveyard
One for my baby
Below zero
Liar's karma
Pity
Shooting range
In the red dress I wear to your funeral
At least