The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans: Poems (The

The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans: Poems (The Contemporary Poetry)

This compelling book takes its title from Samuel Beckett's Ohio Impromptu. In Beckett's play, a grieving beloved seeks relief from the haunting presence of a departed lover in a place where "From its single window he could see the downstream extremity of the Isle of Swans." With a bow to Beckett's style and linguistic playfulness, Mary Jo Bang's collection of poems deals compassionately and gracefully with the tangible world.
Bang's savvy alliterative insistence sweeps the reader along, as her poems collectively offer a world delicately structured from memorable fragments of experience, emotion, things, and places--inside and outside the human psyche.
Country USA
Brand University of Georgia Press
Manufacturer University of Georgia Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2001-05-14
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780820322926

The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans: Poems (The Contemporary Poetry)