Poems
Edición de la obra Apology for Want
| Autor | Mary Jo Bang |
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| Editorial | University Press of New England |
| Fecha de publicación | July 1, 1997 |
| Lugar | Hanover, USA |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 71 |
| Formato | Paperback |
| ISBN-10 | 0874518210, 0874518229 |
| OCLC | 36372326 |
| LCCN | 97001760 |
| Serie | A Middlebury/Bread Loaf book |
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B216a |
There is a keenness in the poems of <em>Apology for Want</em> that one rarely encounters in a first collection, an unfailing and unflinching exactitude—of language, of metaphor, of emotion. Mary Jo Bang is a poet of unerring discernment, of uncanny perspicacity. The precision in these poems is never gratuitous; this is fine furniture where every nail is driven by necessity. Bang delineates the all-too-human condition of gazing and longing and gives us cautionary tales of what happens to those who shun restraint and yield instead to desperate attempts at satisfaction.