Louise in Love (Paperback, 1st ed)

In this stunning new collection of poems, Mary Jo Bang jettisons the reader into the dreamlike world of Louise, a woman in love. With language delicate, smooth, and wryly funny, Louise is on a voyage without destination, traveling with a cast of enigmatic others, including her lover, Ham. Louise is as musical as she is mysterious and the reader is invited to listen. In her world, anything goes, provided it is breathtaking.

Bang, whose first collection was the prize-winning Apology for Want, both parodies and pays homage to the lyric tradition, borrowing its lush music and dramatic structure to give new voice to the old concerns of the late Romantic poets. Louise in Love is a dramatic postmodern verse-novel with an eloquent free-floating narration. The poems, rife with literary allusion, take journeys to distant lands. And, like anyone on a voyage without a destination, they are endlessly questioning of the enigmatic world around them.

General

Imprint:	Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2001
First published:	December 2000
Authors:	Mary Jo Bang
Dimensions:	209 x 139 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	80
Edition:	1st ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-8021-3760-9
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-8021-3760-1
Barcode:	9780802137609

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