A shocked, funny, tender despondency ripples through Star Blacks new poetry collection.The Popular Votecartwheels from newspaper headlines after Donald Trumps 2016 victory to the intimacy of personal elegy. This spirited examination moves with casual spontaneity and verve, pressuring language into a performance of surprising, invigorating movements across syntax and line.
From meditations on love, skyscapes, and cultural and personal loss, the poems inThe Popular Votereach out to the sleep-deprived majority of Americans who are governed by a president they didnt vote for. The result is a poetry collection full of vision and insight. For readers of contemporary poetry and those seeking insightful social commentary.
Star Black is a poet, photographer, and artist. She has authored six collections of poetry and currently teaches in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton. She was recently published in The Paris Review, and has written three books of sonnets, a collection of double sestinas, and a book of collaged free verse. Her poems have been anthologized in The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, 110 Stories: New York Writers After September 11, and The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1880 to The Present.
New political poems from a master of form.
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