A Doll for Throwing (ePub)
We were ridiculous-me, with my high jinks and hat. Him, with his boredom and drink. I look back now and see buildings so thick that the...
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The exquisite new collection by the award-winning poet Mary Jo Bang, author of The Last Two Seconds and Elegy
We were ridiculous-me, with my high jinks and hat. Him, with his boredom and drink. I look back now and see buildings so thick that the life I thought I was making then is nothing but interlocking angles and above them, that blot of gray sky I sometimes saw. Underneath is the edge of what wasn't known then. When I would go. When I would come back. What I would be when.
-from "One Glass Negative"
A Doll for Throwing takes its title from the Bauhaus artist Alma Siedhoff-Buscher's Wurfpuppe, a flexible and durable woven doll that, if thrown, would land with grace. A ventriloquist is also said to "throw" her voice into a doll that rests on the knee. Mary Jo Bang's prose poems in this fascinating book create a speaker who had been a part of the Bauhaus school in Germany a century ago and who had also seen the school's collapse when it was shut by the Nazis in 1933. Since this speaker is not a person but only a construct, she is also equally alive in the present and gives voice to the conditions of both time periods: nostalgia, xenophobia, and political extremism. The life of the Bauhaus photographer Lucia Moholy echoes across these poems-the end of her marriage, the loss of her negatives, and her effort to continue to make work and be known for having made it.
- Autor: Mary Jo Bang
- 2017, 88 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Graywolf Press
- ISBN-10: 1555979734
- ISBN-13: 9781555979737
- Erscheinungsdatum: 15.08.2017
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- Größe: 2.36 MB
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