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Books by Mary Jo Bang
  | | Elegy(1st Edition) Poems by Mary Jo Bang Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2009 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-540-1, ISBN: 1-55597-540-2 "Elegy by Mary Jo Bang was 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 ifThe windows of night have been sewn to her eyes. —from “Ode to History” " |
 | | The Bride of E Poems by Mary Jo Bang Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2009 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-539-5, ISBN: 1-55597-539-9 "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 deepest sort of anguish: the existential condition. Timeless yet tirelessly inven ..." |
 | | A Doll for Throwing Poems (2017) by Mary Jo Bang Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2017 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-781-8, ISBN: 1-55597-781-2 "The exquisite new collection by the award-winning poet Mary Jo Bang, author of The Last Two Seconds and ElegyWe were ridiculous―me, with my high jinks and hat. Him, with his boredom and drink. I look back now and see buildings so thick that the life I thought I was making then is nothing but interlocking angles and above them, that blot of gray sky I sometimes saw. Underneath is the edge of what wasn’t known then. When I would go. When ..." |
 | | The Eye Like a Strange Balloon(Updated) Poems (Grover Press Poetry) by Mary Jo Bang Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2004 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-4157-6, ISBN: 0-8021-4157-9 "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 a ..." |
 | | The Last Two Seconds(1st Edition) Poems by Mary Jo Bang Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2015 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-704-7, ISBN: 1-55597-704-9 "The eagerly awaited new poetry collection by Mary Jo Bang, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award "We were told that the cloud cover was a blanket""about to settle into the shape of the present""which, if we wanted to imagine it""as a person, would undoubtedly look startled ""as after a verbal berating""or in advance of a light pistol whipping.""The camera came and went, came and went, ""like a masked man trying to light a too ..." |
 | | The Funk & Wag from A to Z (Menil Collection) by Mel Chin, Nick Flynn, Jen Bervin, Mary Jo Bang, Terrence Hayes, Ishion Hutchinson, Michael Klein, Genine Lentine, Ben Marcus, Tamalyn Miller, Rick Moody, Valzhyna Mort, Kristin Prevallet, Claudia Rankine, Haun Saussy, Barry Schwabsky, Ravi Shankar, Eleni Sikélionòs, Lili Taylor, Catherine Wagner, K. Silem Mohammad, C. D. Wright Hardcover, 328 Pages, Published 2014 by The Menil Collection ISBN-13: 978-0-300-20450-6, ISBN: 0-300-20450-7 "This striking, oversized book, designed to evoke encyclopedias, is a highly creative amalgam of collage with a political bent and poetry. From 2011 to 2012, American artist Mel Chin (b. 1951) extracted all of the images from a twenty-five-volume set of Funk & Wagnall s "Universal Standard Encyclopedia" (ca. 195356) and began visually re-editing. Thousands of images rendered by photomechanical reproduction that served a populist, mid-cen ..." |
 | | Inferno(Illustrated) A New Translation by Mr Dante Alighieri, Henrik Drescher, Mary Jo Bang Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2013 by Graywolf Press Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-654-5, ISBN: 1-55597-654-9 "An innovative and fascinating new version of Dante Alighieri's Inferno as it has never been rendered Stopped mid-motion in the middle Of what we call a life, I looked up and saw no sky-Only a dense cage of leaf, tree, and twig. I was lost. --from Canto I Award-winning poet Mary Jo Bang has translated the Inferno into English at a moment when popular culture is so prevalent that it has even taken Dante, author of the fourteenth century ..." |
 | | Elegy Poems by Mary Jo Bang Hardcover, 92 Pages, Published 2007 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-483-1, ISBN: 1-55597-483-X "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, the poems in Elegy confront, in stark terms and with a resilient voice, how memory haunts the ..." |
 | | Apology for Want(1st Edition) (Bakeless Prize) by Mary Jo Bang Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 1997 by Middlebury ISBN-13: 978-0-87451-822-1, ISBN: 0-87451-822-9 "There is a keenness in the poems of Apology for Want that one rarely encounters in a first collection, an unfailing and unflinching exactitude - of language, of metaphor, of emotion. Mary Jo Bang is a poet of unerring discernment, of uncanny perspicacity. The precision in these poems is never gratuitous; this is fine furniture where every nail is driven by necessity. Bang delineates the all-too-human condition of gazing and longing and ..." |
 | | The Last Two Seconds Poems by Mary Jo Bang 88 Pages, Published 2015 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-901-0, ISBN: 1-55597-901-7 "This is brilliant and profound work by an essential poet of our time." |
 | | The Literary Review(1st Edition) Encyclopedia Britannica by Mary Jo Bang, Osama Alomar, Ales Steger, Simon Perchik, Douglas Ogurek, The Literary Review, Albert Goldbarth, Cynthia Cruz, Christian Barter, Brian Henry, Martha Witt, Joseph Levens, Mark Budman, C.E. Cardiff, Bryon Macwilliams, Hilary Steinitz, Renee Ashley, Minna Proctor, Craig Morgan Teicher, Maria Sibylla Merian, Ahmet Ada, Gloria Amodeo, Sarah Barber, Polina Barkova, Barret Baumgart, Michael Bazzett, Miron Białoszewski, Callista Buchen, Manu Chander, Nesrin Eruysal, Kathryn Farris, Ken Fifer, Franklin Freeman, David Georgi, Micah Heatwole, John Hoppenthaler, Ilya Kaminsky, Andrei Krasnyashykh, Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Matt Mcgregor, Tanya Paperny, Utz Rachowski, Daniel Reid, Michael Ritterson, Ryan Romine, F. Daniel Rzicznek, C. J. Sage, Jena Salon, Ian Stone, Charlotte Wilder Single Issue Magazine, 256 Pages, Published 2012 by Fairleigh Dickinson University ISBN-13: 978-0-9846400-6-5, ISBN: 0-9846400-6-1 "The Literary Review is a sleek literary magazine featuring the best international writers of our generation. Every issue includes short stories, poems, essays, belle lettres and book commentary, as well as author interviews. The Literary Review is one of the hippest literary journals in the country and one of the oldest. No dust gathers here. The Encyclopedia Britannica issue includes a wealth of art from the age of information. This is ..." |
 | | The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans(Updated) Poems (The Contemporary Poetry Ser.) by Mary Jo Bang Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2001 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-2292-6, ISBN: 0-8203-2292-X "This compelling book takes its title from Samuel Beckett's "Ohio Impromptu." In Beckett's play, a grieving beloved seeks relief from the haunting presence of a departed lover in a place where "From its single window he could see the downstream extremity of the Isle of Swans." 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 sa ..." |
 | | Apology for Want (Bakeless Prize) by Mary Jo Bang Hardcover, 80 Pages, Published 1997 by Middlebury ISBN-13: 978-0-87451-821-4, ISBN: 0-87451-821-0 |
 | | Columbia Poetry Review Number 6 by Columbia College, Mary Jo Bang, Cynthia Capello, William Hickey Paperback, 94 Pages, Published 1993 by Columbia College ISBN-13: 978-0-932026-32-3, ISBN: 0-932026-32-X "Columbia College Poetry Review Number 6 issued in 1993." |
 | | Inferno(Illustrated) A New Translation by Mr Dante Alighieri, Henrik Drescher, Mary Jo Bang Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2012 by Graywolf Press Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-619-4, ISBN: 1-55597-619-0 "An innovative and fascinating new version of Dante Alighieri's Inferno as it has never been rendered Stopped mid-motion in the middle Of what we call a life, I looked up and saw no sky-Only a dense cage of leaf, tree, and twig. I was lost. --from Canto I Award-winning poet Mary Jo Bang has translated the Inferno into English at a moment when popular culture is so prevalent that it has even taken Dante, author of the fourteenth century ..." |
 | | A Film in Which I Play Everyone Poems by Bang, Mary Jo Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2023 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-64445-247-9, ISBN: 1-64445-247-2 |
 | | Louise in Love(1st Edition) by Mary Jo Bangs Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2001 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-3760-9, ISBN: 0-8021-3760-1 |
 | | Colonies of Paradise Poems by Göritz, Matthias, Bang, Mary Jo Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 2022 by Triquarterly ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-4581-8, ISBN: 0-8101-4581-2 |
 | | Purgatorio by Alighieri, Dante, Bang, Mary Jo Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2021 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-64445-057-4, ISBN: 1-64445-057-7 |
 | | A Doll for Throwing Poems by Mary Jo Bang 88 Pages, Published 2017 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-973-7, ISBN: 1-55597-973-4 "The exquisite new collection by the award-winning poet Mary Jo Bang, author of The Last Two Seconds and Elegy We were ridiculous—me, with my high jinks and hat." |
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