{"product_id":"elegy-poems-mary-jo-bang","title":"Elegy: Poems;  Mary Jo Bang","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMary 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. Continually in search of an adequate metaphor for the most profound and private grief, the poems in Elegy confront, in stark terms and with a resilient voice, how memory haunts the living and brings the dead back to life. Within these intimate and personal poems is a persistently urgent, and deeply touching, examination of grief itself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctober 16, 2007\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Jo Bang\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an American poet. In her most recent collection, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bride of E\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, she uses a distinctive mix of humor, directness, and indirection, to sound the deepest sort of anguish: the existential condition. Bang fashions her examination of the lived life into an abecedarius—the title of the first poem, \"ABC Plus E: Cosmic Aloneness Is the Bride of Existence,\" posits the collection's central problem, and a symposium of figures from every register of our culture (from Plato to Pee-wee Herman, Mickey Mouse to Sartre) is assembled to help confront it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBang is the author of five previous books of poetry: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eApology for Want, Louise in Love, The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans, The Eye Like a Strange Balloon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eElegy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which won the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and was named a 2008 New York Times Notable Book. She’s been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. She has an M.F.A. from Columbia University, an M.A. and B.A. in Sociology from Northwestern University, and a B.A. in Photography from the Polytechnic of Central London. From 1995-2005 she was the poetry co-editor at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri, where she is a Professor of English and teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Washington University.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45548866928962,"sku":"","price":6.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/elegy.jpg?v=1689017990","url":"https:\/\/shop.freeairbooks.com\/products\/elegy-poems-mary-jo-bang","provider":"FREEAIR Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}