Erin Belieu’s Book Notes music playlist for her poetry collection Cocklebur

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Hanif Abdurraqib, Andrew Sean Greer, Roxane Gay, and many others. Erin Belieu’s career-spannimg poetry collection Cocklebur showcases her inimitable talent for ever lyrically capturing darkness through whimsy. Publishers Weekly wrote of the book: “Span­ning her four-dec­ade oeuvre, [Cocklebur], the spark­ling sixth col­lec­tion from Belieu (Come-Hither Hon­ey­comb), cap­tures her propuls­ive lyr­i­cism and trade­mark ima­gistic dynam­ism. Here is Belieu’s fully real­ized poetic voice singing clearest and most poignantly in self-pro­claimed ‘early dot­age’—’a sav­age trick.’ . . . Read­ers will find this scin­til­lat­ing and mem­or­able.” In her own words, here is Erin Belieu’s Book Notes music playlist for her poetry collection Cocklebur: Two…