The Eye Like A Strange Balloon: Poems (004)

Bang, Mary Jo

ISBN 10: 0802141579 / ISBN 13: 9780802141576

Edité par Grove Press, 2004

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First printing. As new. Mint. Signed on title page. Mylar cover.

N° de réf. du vendeur 339

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Eye Like A Strange Balloon: Poems (004)
• Éditeur: Grove Press
• Date de parution: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0802141579
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780802141576
• Reliure: Softcover
• Édition: First edition.
• Impression: 1st printing
• État de l'article: As new
• Signé: Signed by author
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

The ever-adventurous author of Louise in Love looks to the visual arts for inspiration with this astonishing fourth collection. The poems in The Eye Like a Strange Balloon find their seed in paintings, film, video, photographs, and collage, and the end results are something more than a sum of their parts. Beginning with a painting done in 2003, the poems move backward in time to 1 B.C., where an architectural fragment is painted on an architectural fragment, highlighting visual art's strange relationship between the image and the thing itself. The total effect is exhilarating-a wholly original, personal take on art history coupled with Bang's sly and elegant commentary on poetry's enduring subjects: Love, Death, Time, and Desire. The recipient of numerous prizes and awards, Bang stands at the front of American poetry with this new work, asking more of the English language, and enticing and challenging the reader.