The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans: Poems
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This compelling book takes its title from Samuel Beckett's Ohio Impromptu . In Beckett's play, a grieving beloved seeks relief from the haunting presence of a departed lover in a place where "From its single window he could see the downstream extremity of the Isle of Swans." 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.
Author: Mary Jo Bang
Format: Paperback, 80 pages, 140mm x 216mm, 113 g
Published: 2001, University of Georgia Press, United States
Genre: Poetry Texts & Poetry Anthologies
Description
This compelling book takes its title from Samuel Beckett's Ohio Impromptu . In Beckett's play, a grieving beloved seeks relief from the haunting presence of a departed lover in a place where "From its single window he could see the downstream extremity of the Isle of Swans." 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.
The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans: Poems