The Eye Like a Strange Balloon: Poems - Paperback
by Mary Jo Bang
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Availability:In StockContributor:Mary Jo BangSeries:Grover Press PoetryTheme:Sex & Gender/Feminine, Topical/Women's InterestPublish date:9/29/2004Pages:112
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Grove PressISBN-13:9780802141576ISBN-10:0802141579UPC:9780802141576Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Women Authors, Subjects & ThemesSize:8.30 x 5.58 x 0.32 inchesWeight:0.145Product ID:SCJWEG752A
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, the poems move backward in time to 1 B.C., where an architectural fragment is painted on an architectural fragment, highlighting visual art's strange relationship between the image and the thing itself. The total effect is exhilarating-a wholly original, personal take on art history coupled with Bang's sly and elegant commentary on poetry's enduring subjects: Love, Death, Time, and Desire. The recipient of numerous prizes and awards, Bang stands at the front of American poetry with this new work, asking more of the English language, and enticing and challenging the reader.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Grove PressISBN-13:9780802141576ISBN-10:0802141579UPC:9780802141576Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Women Authors, Subjects & ThemesSize:8.30 x 5.58 x 0.32 inchesWeight:0.145Product ID:SCJWEG752A
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