The ever-adventurous author of Louise in Love looks to the visual arts for inspiration with this astonishing fourth collection. The poems in The Eye Like a Strange Balloon find their seed in paintings, film, video, photographs, and collage, and the end results are something more than a sum of their parts. Beginning with a painting done in 2003, ...
Bang, a previous Bakeless Prize-winner, presents a cycle of poems concerning the inner life of Louise, a wayward character on a picaresque journey. Literary allusions abound. Bang is known for her wit and the lyricism of her line.
Mary Jo Bang's fifth collection, "Elegy," chronicles the year following the death of her son. By weaving the particulars of her own loss into a tapestry that also contains the elements common to all losses, Bang creates something far larger than a mere lament. Continually in search of an adequate metaphor for the most profound and private grief, ...
This compelling book takes its title from Samuel Beckett's Ohio Impromptu. With a bow to Beckett's style and linguistic playfulness, Mary Jo Bang's collection of poems deals compassionately and gracefully with the tangible world. Bang's savvy alliterative insistence sweeps the reader along, as her poems collectively offer a world delicately ...
Poems by the author of "Elegy, "Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry " The goblet mouth on the table speaks To your thirst, saying, Longing, your longing, is infinite." -from "H Is Here Is a Song, Now Sing" In her sixth collection, "The Bride of E," Mary Jo Bang uses a distinctive mix of humor and directness to sound the ...
The winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, and a 2008 "New York Times" Notable Book "Look at her--It's as if The windows of night have been sewn to her eyes." --from "Ode to History"
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