A Doll for Throwing: Poems Contributor(s): Bang, Mary Jo (Author) |
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ISBN: 1555977812 ISBN-13: 9781555977818 Publisher: Graywolf Press OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
Dewey: 811.54 |
Physical Information: 0.2" H x 6" W x 9" (0.30 lbs) 88 pages |
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Publisher Description: The exquisite new collection by the award-winning poet Mary Jo Bang, author of The Last Two Seconds and Elegy --from "One Glass Negative" A Doll for Throwing takes its title from the Bauhaus artist Alma Siedhoff-Buscher's Wurfpuppe, a flexible and durable woven doll that, if thrown, would land with grace. A ventriloquist is also said to "throw" her voice into a doll that rests on the knee. Mary Jo Bang's prose poems in this fascinating book create a speaker who had been a part of the Bauhaus school in Germany a century ago and who had also seen the school's collapse when it was shut by the Nazis in 1933. Since this speaker is not a person but only a construct, she is also equally alive in the present and gives voice to the conditions of both time periods: nostalgia, xenophobia, and political extremism. The life of the Bauhaus photographer Lucia Moholy echoes across these poems--the end of her marriage, the loss of her negatives, and her effort to continue to make work and be known for having made it. |