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A film in which I play everyone : poems / Mary Jo Bang.
Van Pelt Library PS3552.A47546 F55 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bang, Mary Jo, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Women--Poetry.
- Women.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 101 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, MN : Graywolf Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "A Film in Which I Play Everyone takes its title from a response David Bowie gave to a fan who asked if he had upcoming film roles. 'I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized autobiography that I am writing,' Bowie answered. 'Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.' Mary Jo Bang's brilliant poems might be the soundtrack to such a movie, where the first-person speaker plays herself and everyone she's ever met. She falls in and out of love with men, with women, and struggles to realize her ambitions while suffering crushing losses that give rise to dark thoughts. She's drawn to stories that mirror her own condition: those of women who struggle to speak in a world that would silence them"--Amazon.com.
- ISBN:
- 1644452472
- 9781644452479
- OCLC:
- 1355022938
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