The Bride of E

by Mary Jo Bang

Book Overview

Poems by the author of Elegy, Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry

The goblet mouth on the table speaks
To your thirst, saying, Longing, your longing, is infinite.
-from "H Is Here Is a Song, Now Sing"

In her sixth collection, The Bride of E, Mary Jo Bang uses a distinctive mix of humor and directness to sound the deepest sort of anguish: the existential condition. Timeless...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555975399
• ISBN13: 9781555975395
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"