Results for "Bang, Mary Jo"

A Film in Which I Play Everyone takes its title from a response David Bowie gave to a fan who asked if he had upcoming film roles. “I’m looking for backing for an unauthorized autobiography that I am writing,” Bowie answered. “Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue... Read More about A Film in Which I Play Everyone: Poems

An innovative and fascinating new version of Dante Alighieri's Inferno as it has never been renderedStopped mid-motion in the middle Of what we call a life, I looked up and saw no sky-Only a dense cage of leaf, tree, and twig. I was lost. --from Canto IAward-winning poet Mary Jo Bang has translate... Read More about Inferno

The first book of poems by the great Japanese surrealist to be published in English In 1923, Shuzo Takiguchi's first year at Tokyo's Keio University was cut short by the Great Kanto Earthquake, which nearly destroyed the Japanese capital. When he returned to school two years later, he was hit by a... Read More about A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi (Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation #156)

The second installment in Mary Jo Bang’s exhilarating, innovative translation of Dante’s The Divine ComedyAward-winning poet Mary Jo Bang’s new translation of Purgatorio is the extraordinary continuation of her journey with Dante, which began with her transformative version of Inferno. In Purgatorio... Read More about Purgatorio

The first book of poems by the great Japanese surrealist to be published in English In 1923, Shuzo Takiguchi's first year at Tokyo's Keio University was cut short by the Great Kanto Earthquake, which nearly destroyed the Japanese capital. When he returned to school two years later, he was hit by a... Read More about A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi (Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation #156)

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 ... Read More about The Eye Like a Strange Balloon: Poems (Grover Press Poetry)