1 option
Balefire / Star Black.
LIBRA - Special PS3552.L34134 B3 1999
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Black, Star, author.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 71 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Painted Leaf Press.
- Summary:
- In swift ruminations, Star Black traces the hesitant silences that fall between desire and restraint. Balefire, the book's title, alludes to a signal fire seen from a distance.
- Contents:
- Betroth'd
- Timbre
- Buff
- Purlieus
- Tick Tock
- Success
- Employment
- Nirvana
- Going Under
- Epitaph
- Mutual, Myelin, Myrrh
- Rilke's Letter From Rome
- Needing You
- Searchless
- Meshed
- Supple
- Toil de Jouy
- Transcendent
- Cuisine
- To a War Correspondent
- Go on
- Lust
- Next
- Cuffed
- The Blank Abandon of Beds
- Wyndwalker
- Afterlife
- "Eve Made Air the Mirror of Herself"
- Receding
- Recollection
- Aesthete
- Shut-in
- Chess Openings
- Personals
- Birthmark
- Hoopla
- Agenda
- Descent
- Traffic
- Connu
- Ugly
- Ululant
- Twiddling
- Going, Going, Gone
- Don't Ask
- Listening
- The Underside
- Prude, Prune, Pry
- Wambling
- Talk Radio
- Hands Down
- Idyll
- Precedence
- Estrus
- Timorous
- Fastforward
- Retrieved
- Binding
- For you
- Fact Check
- Cedar Den
- Savoir
- Otherwhile.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- Blurb on page [4] of cover by Molly Peacock.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Black, Star. Balefire.
- ISBN:
- 1891305166
- 9781891305160
- OCLC:
- 40869666
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.