Erin Belieu joins us for the Breaking Form interview to talk about her New and Selected Poems, Cocklebur!
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.
Notes:
Belieu is the author of 6 books of poetry, including Come-Hither Honeycomb (2020); Slant Six (2014); Black Box (2006), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; One Above & One Below (2000); and Infanta (1995), selected by Hayden Carruth for the National Poetry Series, and most recently, Cocklebur: New and Selected Poems.
Read a review of Cocklebur in Literary Hub here.
Read the title poem "Cocklebur" and order the book here.
Visit Erin's website here: https://www.erinbelieu.com/
Watch Erin read alongside Carl Phillips and Maggie Dietz here. And you can watch her read "The Scent from a Cupboard" from Cocklebur here.
Read this fabulous conversation with Erin and former Breaking Form guest Joy Priest in On the Seawall.
Tour the Library at the Breakers
"The Pope's Penis" is a 7-line poem by Sharon Olds which appears in her 2nd book, The Gold Cell (1987)
Read Erin's "The Death of Humphrey Bogart" mentioned in the pod here.
Some of the other flower/plant names we read include: bastard toadflax, pussytoes, hellebore, cow vetch, candytuft, scarlet pimpernel, skunk cabbage, sneezeweed, and toad lily.
