The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Georgia Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2001
First published:	May 2001
Authors:	Mary Jo Bang
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 7mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	80
ISBN-13:	978-0-8203-2292-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-8203-2292-X
Barcode:	9780820322926

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