The Black House - Bianca Stone
The Black House - Bianca Stone
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Bianca Stone’s chapbook of intimate, searching and darkly humorous prose poems moves amidst the unconscious manifesting in the external world, the reconciliation of the conscious self and the symbolic significance behind our symptoms. Rather than attending to the details of empirical events, these poems tap into universal forms of the psyche and the understanding that our symptoms are often wounds to which we love and tend.
Through the use of epistolary address as well as a rogue self-case history, this chapbook depicts the sometimes-voice of a “commander-in-chief” in an inverted office: The Black House, run by a flawed executive leader of one’s own life. Drawing from psychological, poetic and phenomenological traditions via the works of Freud, Jung, Deleuze and Bachelard (among others), these poems examine love and desire, self and other, metaphor and transference as paradoxical phenomena that express the manifold of our experience.
ISBN: 978-1-7359891-4-3
About Bianca Stone
Bianca Stone is the author of the poetry collections What is Otherwise Infinite (Tin House, 2022) which won the 2023 Vermont Book Award in Poetry; The Möbius Strip Club of Grief (Tin House, 2018), Someone Else’s Wedding Vows (Octopus Books and Tin House, 2014) and collaborated with Anne Carson on the illuminated version of Antigonick (New Directions, 2012). Her work has appeared in many magazines, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The Nation. She teaches classes on poetry and poetic study at the Ruth Stone House (501c3) where she is editor-at-large for ITERANT magazine and host of Ode & Psyche Podcast. Read more here.