The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans: Poems
Mary Jo Bang
(Author)
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.
Product Details
Price
$21.95
$20.41
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Publish Date
May 14, 2001
Pages
80
Dimensions
6.46 X 0.26 X 8.48 inches | 0.25 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780820322926
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About the Author
Mary Jo Bang is also the author of" Apology for Want," "Louise in Love," "Elegy," and "The Bride of E." "Elegy" was awarded the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award and was listed as a 2008 Notable Book by the "New York Times." She has received a Discovery/"The Nation" Award, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.
