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1	Eye Like a Strange Balloon more books like this by Mary Jo Bang The ever-adventurous author of Louise in Love looks to the visual arts for inspiration with this astonishing fourth collection. 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, ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £5.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Apology for Want more books like this by Mary Jo Bang Desire, its essence and its effect, informs Apology for Want. With precise language and evocative metaphor, Mary Jo Bang convinces us of our "always ravenous hunger." Employing penetrating images, she explicates the consequences of our dogged wanting. We cannot extricate ourselves from this cycle of desire and regret, nor should we choose to, as ... see all copies from £4.98! new only from £19.91! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Elegy more books like this by Mary Jo Bang Mary 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, ... see all copies from £10.22! new only from £12.55! \| first editions
4	Louise in Love more books like this by Mary Jo Bang Bang, a previous Bakeless Prize-winner, presents a cycle of poems concerning the inner life of Louise, a wayward character on a picaresque journey. Literary allusions abound. Bang is known for her wit and the lyricism of her line. see all copies from £5.46! new only from £9.05! \| first editions
5	Whatever you desire : a book of lesbian poetry more books like this by Mary Jo Bang see all copies from £3.01! first editions
6	Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans more books like this by Mary Jo Bang This compelling book takes its title from Samuel Beckett's Ohio Impromptu. 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 ... see all copies from £8.53! new only from £12.03!

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