Research Catalog

Title

The eye like a strange balloon : poems / by Mary Jo Bang.

Author

Bang, Mary Jo

Publication

New York : Grove Press, c2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

xi, 97 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

"The poems in The Eye Like a Strange Balloon find their beginnings 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 backward in time to 1 B.C., 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 exhilarating - a wholly original, personal take on art history coupled with Bang's commentary on poetry's enduring subjects: Love, Death, Time, and Desire."--Jacket.

Subjects

• Poésie
• Poetry
• poetry

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Poetry
• Poésie.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Rock and roll is dead, the novel is dead, God is dead, painting is dead -- Mulholland Drive -- Tact -- Three trees -- High art -- How did the monkeys get into my work? (or, table turning) -- The three lies of painting -- Rococo -- Atrabiliarios (melancholy) -- The singing sculpture -- The magic lantern -- Mrs. Autumn and her two daughters -- The physical impossibility of death in the mind of someone living (or, advanced tools) -- The end (or, the falling out) -- The tyranny of everyday life -- Children's games -- In the garden -- How high the moon -- Three parts of an X -- Envy and avarice -- Spots -- Etched murmurs (or, the common green libretto) -- The bridge (or, Ophelia) -- Catastrophe theory IV.

ISBN

0802141579

LCCN

^^2004054432

OCLC

55671190

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library