Apology for Want
Poems
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Author
Publication
1997-07-01 - University Press of New England, Hanover, USA, New Hampshire
Language
English
Word Count
17,750 words, Guess
Page Count
71 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL656669M
- ISBN-100874518210
- OCLC Control Number36372326
- OCLC Control Numberapologyforwant00bang_0
- Library of Congress Control Number97001760
and 2 more
- LibraryThing1121546
- Goodreads5717108
Classifications
- DDC811/.54
- LCCPS3552.A47546 A84 1997
Description
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.
Subjects
Series Statement
- A Middlebury/Bread Loaf book
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