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The Eye Like a Strange Balloon: Poems

By Mary Jo Bang
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By Mary Jo Bang
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The poems in The Eye Like a Strange Balloon find their seed in paintings, film, video, photographs, and collage, and the end results are something more than a sum of their parts. Beginning with a painting done in 2003, the poems move backwards in time to 1 BC, where an architectural fragment is painted on an architectural fragment, highlighting visual art’s strange relationship between the image and the thing itself. The total effect is exhilarating—a wholly original, personal take on art h...

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PoetryAmerican Poetry21st Century American PoetryAmerican poetry->Women authors->21st centuryAmerican poetry->21st century