Ghostwood

by Black, Star

• ISBN13: 9780971865921
• ISBN10: 0971865922
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Melville House

Summary

"The sonnet, the phoenix of poetry, burns and rises in Star Black...molten and malleable [she] expands syntax and compresses discourse, pulsing at the brink of 21st century poetics...With only the straps of her rhymes to hang on to, she daresand flies." Molly Peacock Defying trends by writing scrupulously sculpted poems that revel in form and are unabashedly beautiful, playful and smart, Star Black, one of the most popular poets in the New York poetry scene, kicks off Melville House Publishing's NEW YORK POETS SERIES by focusing her edgy intellect on the sonnet. Her collection Ghostwood presents 48 chiseled gems that show off the many reasons why she is considered one of the leading practitioners of the sonnet writing in English today. Black's poems celebrate nature as well as life in the city. They link touching characters and explore the boundaries of love. They keen in grief and angeras in her searing poem about the WTC attacks, "Perfect Weather"and they bound into hope, as in the quirky beauty, "Asylum." In short, Blackwho is also renowned as a photo-journalist whose work has appeared regularly in The New York Times and elsewhereis the perfect example of the kind of poet highlighted by the NEW YORK POETS SERIES: a poets' poet who also has a huge popular following in Manhattan, and whose work is ready to be appreciated by a larger international audience.

Author Biography

STAR BLACK is a world-renowned photo-journalist operating out of her mid-Manhattan home. She is co-founder of the wildly popular poetry reading series at the KGB Bar in Manhattan's East Village, and the author of four books of poems: Double Time, Waterworn, October for Idas, and Balefire.

Table of Contents

September Eleventh
Perfect Weather	17	(2)
Asylum	19	(1)
Atonement	20	(1)
Skyscapers	21	(4)
Loosestrife
Tableland	25	(1)
Urchins	26	(1)
Nebulous	27	(1)
Beloved	28	(1)
Moebius	29	(1)
Barter	30	(1)
Weed-Deep	31	(1)
`Ore `Ere `Ore	32	(1)
Courting Oriane	33	(1)
Labor Day Lost	34	(1)
Sunburst	35	(1)
Ruffled	36	(1)
Noir Nights	37	(1)
Edge of Spring	38	(1)
Riposte	39	(4)
Overcast
Galligaskins	43	(1)
Comfort	44	(1)
Sweet Demise	45	(1)
Faint Fervor	46	(1)
Threshold	47	(1)
Auto-Autumn	48	(1)
Redolent Wiles	49	(1)
Mock Orange	50	(1)
November More	51	(1)
Oil Birds	52	(1)
Glory	53	(1)
Wombward	54	(5)
The Keyhole Garden
The Keyhole Garden	59	(1)
Feather-Flown	60	(1)
Easy Company	61	(1)
To A Friend Writing A Memoir	62	(1)
Daytripping	63	(1)
Saving Money	64	(1)
Beach Balm	65	(1)
Swevens	66	(1)
Springwood Espousal	67	(1)
Rip Rap	68	(1)
Mesa Mischief	69	(1)
Right On	70	(1)
Birdbath	71	(1)
Laying Low	72	(1)
``There Is Only Sun, Sunstrife and Sea''	73	(4)
About the Poet	77