The Bride Of E

Poems

BY MARY JO BANG
These new poems explore a contrast between high and low culture. She wrote each of them through the lens of an invented character, rather than through her own eyes and her own emotions. "I tend to reject the notion that poems should somehow reveal something about the poet's life", these poems are lighter and more humorous, with a less elegiac tone. .

Graywolf Press 2009 90 PP. Cloth

$22.00 (in stock)

Elegy

BY MARY JO BANG
64 poems elegies written after the death of her 37 year old son from an accidental perscription drug overdose. Devastated, but still writing clearly and with great intelligence the poems have garnered great praise. She intended the poems to be a distraction from her sorrow; they offer no hope, no consolation and no solution. She wrote them for one year as a conversation with her son and then stopped.

Graywolf Press 2007 92 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)