Description:
What are we to make of the longing of our lives-"the ache or desire for something unattainable?." From riffs on Medea to elegies for a dead father, Black's chapbook traces how longing complicates our stories while imbuing us with a fierce desire to feel more, see more, know more.
Brief description: Sheila Black is the author of five poetry collections and threechapbooks. Her most recent collection is Radium Dream (SalmonPoetry Ireland 2022). She is a co-editor of Beauty is a Verb: The NewPoetry of Disability (Cinco Puntos Press, 2011), named a Notable Bookfor Adults for 2012 by the American Library Association. She is a2012 Witter Bynner Fellow with the Library of Congress, for whichshe was selected by Philip Levine. Poems and essays have appeared inBlackbird, The Birmingham Review, Kenyon Review Online, Poetry, TheNation, The New York Times, and elsewhere. She lives in San Antonio, TX and Tempe, AZ where she is assistant director of the Virginia G.Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University (ASU.)