TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bang,Mary Jo
TI  - A doll for throwing: poems
SN  - 9781555977818
AV  - PS3552.A47546 
U1  - 811/.54 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Minneapolis, Minnesota
PB  - Graywolf Press
KW  - Class of Spring 2015
KW  - Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow
KW  - Fellow
KW  - Written at the Academy
N2  - "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
UR  - http://www.gbv.de/dms/weimar/toc/1012038912_toc.pdf
ER  -