Veilleity's Shade

by Black, Star

• ISBN13: 9780981859170
• ISBN10: 0981859178
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-01
• Publisher: Saturnalia Books

Summary

Reversing their roles in 2006's Stigmata Errata Etcetera, Star Black serves as poet, and Bill Knott takes on the role of artist. Bill Knott's colorful, mischievous, semi-abstract paintings compliment Star Black's meditations on love and relationships, as well as the divide between what time holds captive and what eludes time. In Velleity's Shade the temporal collides with the imagined and the passing years become a confluence of queries, shifting views, odd inventories, and light-hearted challenges as if time were a rocking-chair on a flying carpet and turbulence was nothing to fret about. Velleity's Shade is a special treat for lovers of art and poetry.

Author Biography

STAR BLACK is the author of three books 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, and 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.

BILL KNOTT is the author of 12 highly acclaimed collections of poetry, most recently Stigmata Errata Etcetera. He taught for many years at Emerson College and now lives in central Michigan.

Table of Contents

Apologia

Seasonal

Soaked

Noon

Lost Tree of Heaven

Dark-Haired Dawns

The Dream of Tap Water

Twilit

Love is Bonkers

Effort's Alibi

Poesy

Upgrade Aubade

Ghosted

White Whirl

Messed Up

Sky-Hopping

Inscape Complaint

Land of Unease

The Umbrella's Bio

The Obliging Sky

(1945-1967)

Moon Roc

Marvellian Magic

A History of Garden Aesthetics

Three Weak Stars

Rendezvous

Occupied

Lost in the Far-Flown Stars

The Numen of Numbers

As Romance Fails

Well-rounded

The Nearest Sprain

Years of Years

Subversion

Showdown

Wakeful

Nuance

Resolve

Deep Denim

The Moment's Delta

Risible

More Mix-Ups

Mindreader

Switchwork

The Fire's Flight

The Bungler's Crew

Cratered

Ode to Radnitzky

Uncle Elwood's Niece

Leaded

"To Become What One Is"

Lost Sprocket

Bridged by Eaves

Titles of Paintings

Bustwork

Thumbprint

Haywirehangers

Knotthead Sanctified

Knottheadred

It Takes a Village

Prophet in a Landscape of Immemorial Time

Heraclitus etc.

Knotthead Away

The Projectionist's Desire

Totemspiel

Knottheads Going Down the Long Slide to Happiness Endlessly

Shy Knottbird

Knotthead Fugitive

Knottbird Heraldic

Knotthead Above

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