Ghostwood

(Hardback)

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Defying contemporary poetry trends, these 48 sculpted sonnets revel in form and are unabashedly beautiful, playful, and smart. They strike a perfect balance between a fearless intellectualism and a welcome accessibility. A crystalline beauty and a hopeful, searching quality characterise these poems by one of the leading practitioners of sonnet writing in English today.

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"Like a set of tudes, Star Black's sonnets ...fluently and gracefully, chart the amazing course of the quotidian."
John Ashbery

Author Bio

Star Black has taught creative writing at the New School and been the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts grant and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She lives in New York City.