Poetry. 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." 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." See also ONE ABOVE AND ONE BELOW and INFANTA, both available from SPD.
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