| The Bride of E Contributor(s): Bang, Mary Jo (Author) |
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ISBN: 1555975399 ISBN-13: 9781555975395 Publisher: Graywolf Press OUR PRICE: $19.80 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 2009 Annotation: 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. --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 of Existence." Out of that solitude of being, Bang has fashioned an abecedarian that is at once wild and rapturous in its language and music, and compelling and beautiful in its awareness of and yearning for what isn't there. "The Bride of E" is the brilliant new work by one of our essential, most innovative poets. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 6.34" W x 9.3" (0.63 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Poems by the author of Elegy, Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry
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 inventive, Bang fashions her examination of the lived life into an abecedarius that is as rapturous in its language and music as it is affecting in its awareness of--and yearning for--what isn't there. The title of the first poem, "ABC Plus E: Cosmic Aloneness Is the Bride of Existence," posits the collection's central problem, and a symposium of figures from every register of our culture (from Plato to Pee-wee Herman, Mickey Mouse to Sartre) is assembled to help confront it. Riddled with insight, pathos, and wit, The Bride of E is a brilliant new work by one the most compelling poets of our time. |