Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

A new collection of poetry by the author of Louise in Love and Apology for Want draws on the visual arts--painting, film, video, collage, and photography--for inspiration in a poetic exploration of art history, along with such themes as love, death, time, and desire. Original.

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A series of interconnected poems by the award-winning author of Apology for Want journeys into the dreamlike world of Louise as it follows her ever-evolving relationships with an array of enigmatic characters, including her lover, Ham. Original. (view table of contents)

Product Description: 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...read more