The Popular Vote - Star Black

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Star Black is the author of several books of poetry: THE POPULAR VOTE (Saturnalia Books, 2019), VELLEITY'S SHADE (Saturnalia Books, 2010), WATERWORN, Balefire, Ghostwood and Double Time, as well as a 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, has lectured at 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....

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A shocked, funny, tender despondency ripples through Star Black's new poetry collection.The Popular Vote cartwheels from newspaper headlines after Donald Trump's 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 in The Popular Vote reach out to the sleep-deprived majority of Americans who are governed by a president they didn't vote for. The result is a poetry collection full of vision and insight. For readers of contemporary poetry and those seeking insightful social commentary.