Black Box by Erin Belieu, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Belieu's 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 pimp's 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 theBlack Box poems, calling them "dark, twisted, disturbed, and disturbing" and Belieu a "frightening genius."All true. " | Black Box by Erin Belieu, Paperback | Indigo Chapters