Black Lace [Paperback]

Barbara Henning (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 28, 2001

Eileen learns to hold to little else than her body, her diary and her daughter's withering tolerance for a new life made in the streets of 1970'ss Detroit. At the sundown of the post-vietnam war era, an unrelentingly pithy prose style here presides over a dark and wanton voice crying in the wilderness.

Editorial Reviews

Review

... the cut-loose characters of this sparse novel against a gray Detroit dropcloth ... and a scary, uncontrolled eroticism. -- —Charlotte Carter

Black Lace has the power of a Depression-era Walker Evans photo. -- —Lewis Warsh

Flirting with Bataille and invoking Kristeva, Barbara Henning plunges her beleaguered protagonist Eileen into the pitch of an existential crisis. -- Village Voice, July 4, 2001

About the Author

Barbara Henning was born in Detroit, Michigan. She has lived in New York City since 1984. She is the author of two collections of poetry, Smoking in the Twilight Bar (United Artists, 1988) and Love Makes Thinking Dark (United Artists, 1995); three artist book collaborations, Words and Pictures (with Sally Young), The Passion of Signs (with Georgia Marsh, Leave Books), and How to Read and Write in the Dark (with Miranda Maher); and two pamphlets, Me and My Dog from Poetry New York, and In Between from Spectacular Diseases (England). She teaches at Long Island University in Brooklyn and is the editor of Long News Books.

Product Details

• Paperback: 90 pages
• Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil; 1st edition (June 28, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1881471624
• ISBN-13: 978-1881471622
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,652,999 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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