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A Film in Which I Play Everyone takes its title from a response David Bowie gave to an interviewer asking if he had upcoming film roles. "I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized autobiography that I am writing, " Bowie answered. "Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody."Mary Jo Bang's brilliant poems mig...

»Elegie«, ein großer Trauergesang, zählt zu den wichtigsten amerikanischen Gedichtbänden im letzten Jahrzehnt - hier erscheint er erstmals auf Deutsch.Mary Jo Bang spricht in den Gedichten des Zyklus »Elegie« von der Erfahrung eines unerträglichen Verlusts: dem Tod ihres Sohnes. In Etappen durchleben wir als Leser den Trauerprozess, immer wieder kehren wir zu zwei verstörenden Themen zurück: zur sich im Trauern immer neu verzerrenden Wahrnehmu...

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 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 I would...

The eagerly awaited new poetry collection by Mary Jo Bang, winner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardWe were told that the cloud cover was a blanketabout to settle into the shape of the presentwhich, if we wanted to imagine itas a person, would undoubtedly look startled-as after a verbal beratingor in advance of a light pistol whipping.The camera came and went, came and went, like a masked man trying to light a too-damp fuse.The crew was...

Nach dem tragischen, bis heute ungeklärten Tod ihres Sohnes Michael schrieb Mary Jo Bang Gedichte von dunkelschöner Klarheit, die sie in den USA zu einer Berühmtheit werden ließen. Im Hintergrund der nie sentimentalen, vielschichtigen Gedichte über Trauer als kulturelles Ritual steht auch die Frage, ob der Tod ihres Sohnes ein Unfall oder selbst herbeigeführt war. Die 'Dichterin der tausend Masken' gestattet Zutritt zu ihrer persönlichen Traue...

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 new collection by Mary Jo Bang, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and "one of the finest poets of her generation" (Marjorie Perloff) "I took. I borrowed. I turned.I knew. And from then onI was the anything that wanted done." --from "A Equals All of a Sudden" Following her acclaimed "Elegy, " Mary Jo Bang's sixth collection, "The Bride of E, " confronts what the first poem posits in its title: "Cosmic Aloneness Is the Bride o...

Die Kritik feiert Mary Jo Bang (National Book Critics Circle Award 2008), die erst spät zur Lyrik fand, hymnisch. Frank Allen beschreibt in der American Book Review ihre Metaphorik als 'voll von wunderschönen, komplexen Gedanken', Publisher's Weekly bemerkt bewundernd die 'Spannung zwischen der Klarheit der Form und dem vagen, unabgeschlossenen Oszillieren der Emotionen' in ihren Zeilen. Die Lyrik Bangs ist gekennzeichnet durch den verspielten...

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 architec...

In this stunning new collection of poems, Mary Jo Bang jettisons the reader into the dreamlike world of Louise, a woman in love. With language delicate, smooth, and wryly funny, Louise is on a voyage without destination, traveling with a cast of enigmatic others, including her lover, Ham. Louise is as musical as she is mysterious and the reader is invited to listen. In her world, anything goes, provided it is breathtaking. Bang, whose first co...

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 savvy all...