A doll for throwing poems
Bang, Mary Jo 1946-
A doll for throwing poems Mary Jo Bang - 76 Seiten IIlustrationen 23 cm
"A Doll for Throwing ... takes its title from the Bauhaus artist Alma Siedhoff-Buscher's Wurfpuppe, a flexible and durable woven doll that, if thrown, would land with grace. A ventriloquist is also said to "throw" her voice into a doll that rests on the knee. Bang's prose poems in this fascinating book create a speaker who had been a part of the Bauhaus school in Germany a century ago and who had also seen the school's collapse when it was shut by the Nazis in 1933. Since this speaker is not a person but only a construct, she is also equally alive in the present, and gives voice to the conditions of both time periods: nostalgia, xenophobia, misogyny, and political extremism. The art and life of the Bauhaus photographer Lucia Moholy echoes across these poems--the end of her marriage, the loss of her negatives, and her effort to continue to make work and be known for having made it"--Page 4 of cover
9781555977818 : paperback
2016951417
Class of Spring 2015 Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow Fellow Written at the Academy
PS3552.A47546
811/.54
A doll for throwing poems Mary Jo Bang - 76 Seiten IIlustrationen 23 cm
"A Doll for Throwing ... takes its title from the Bauhaus artist Alma Siedhoff-Buscher's Wurfpuppe, a flexible and durable woven doll that, if thrown, would land with grace. A ventriloquist is also said to "throw" her voice into a doll that rests on the knee. Bang's prose poems in this fascinating book create a speaker who had been a part of the Bauhaus school in Germany a century ago and who had also seen the school's collapse when it was shut by the Nazis in 1933. Since this speaker is not a person but only a construct, she is also equally alive in the present, and gives voice to the conditions of both time periods: nostalgia, xenophobia, misogyny, and political extremism. The art and life of the Bauhaus photographer Lucia Moholy echoes across these poems--the end of her marriage, the loss of her negatives, and her effort to continue to make work and be known for having made it"--Page 4 of cover
9781555977818 : paperback
2016951417
Class of Spring 2015 Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow Fellow Written at the Academy
PS3552.A47546
811/.54