| The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans: Poems Contributor(s): Bang, Mary Jo (Author) |
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ISBN: 082032292X ISBN-13: 9780820322926 Publisher: University of Georgia Press OUR PRICE: $20.66 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 00053654 |
| Series: Contemporary Poetry (Univ of Georgia Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.26" H x 6.46" W x 8.48" (0.25 lbs) 80 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 alliterative insistence sweeps the reader along, as her poems collectively offer a world delicately structured from memorable fragments of experience, emotion, things, and places--inside and outside the human psyche. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bang, Mary Jo: - MARY JO BANG is also the author of Apology for Want, winner of the Bakeless Prize and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, and Louise in Love, winner of the Poetry Society's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award. She has received a Discovery/the Nation Award and a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis. |