The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans: Poems - Brossura

 
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Sinossi

This compelling book takes its title from Samuel Beckett's Ohio Impromptu. 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.

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L'autore

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.

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This compelling book takes its title from Samuel Beckett's Ohio Impromptu. 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.

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