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The Eye Like a Strange Balloon. Poems.
Mary Jo Bang
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Paperback / so. Series: Grover Press Poetry. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 142 x 8. Weight in Grams: 145.
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 backwards in time to 1 BC, 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 exhilaratinga 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 ... Read more
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 backwards in time to 1 BC, 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 exhilaratinga 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press United States
Condition
New
Series
Grover Press Poetry
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780802141576
SKU
V9780802141576
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