Poetry. "Like a set of etudes, Star Black's sonnet sequence examines the technical problems of increasing difficulty that each day presents us with. Fluently and gracefully, she charts the amazing course of the quotidien"--John Ashbery.
Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA
Star Black is the author of four books of poetry--WATERWORN, Balefire, Ghostwood and Double Time--and book of collaged texts, October for Idas. Her poems have been anthologized in The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1880 to The Present, and 110 Stories: New York Writers After September 11. She has taught at The New School, Stony Brook University, has lectured at the Bennington Writers Seminars, and is the co-founder of the KGB Bar Poetry Series in the East Village. She works in New York City as a photographer and visual artist.