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A Film in Which I Play Everyone

- Poems
Af: Mary Jo Bang Engelsk Paperback

A Film in Which I Play Everyone

- Poems
Af: Mary Jo Bang Engelsk Paperback
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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. Embedded in these poems are those minor events that inexplicably persist in the memory and become placeholders: the time she lied and had her mouth washed out with soap; the time someone said she wasn’t his “original idea of beauty but something. / Something he couldn’t quite // put his hands on”; the time she stood in indifferent moonlight on a pier as a cat lapped at the water. Tinged with dark humor and sharpened with keen camerawork, A Film in Which I Play Everyone stars Bang at her best, her most provocative.

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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. Embedded in these poems are those minor events that inexplicably persist in the memory and become placeholders: the time she lied and had her mouth washed out with soap; the time someone said she wasn’t his “original idea of beauty but something. / Something he couldn’t quite // put his hands on”; the time she stood in indifferent moonlight on a pier as a cat lapped at the water. Tinged with dark humor and sharpened with keen camerawork, A Film in Which I Play Everyone stars Bang at her best, her most provocative.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 96
ISBN-13: 9781644452479
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1644452472
Udg. Dato: 5 sep 2023
Længde: 10mm
Bredde: 227mm
Højde: 152mm
Forlag: Graywolf Press
Oplagsdato: 5 sep 2023
Forfatter(e): Mary Jo Bang
Forfatter(e) Mary Jo Bang


Kategori Lyrik af en forfatter


ISBN-13 9781644452479


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 96


Udgave


Længde 10mm


Bredde 227mm


Højde 152mm


Udg. Dato 5 sep 2023


Oplagsdato 5 sep 2023


Forlag Graywolf Press

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