The Eye Like a Strange Balloon: Poems

by Mary Jo Bang

Book Overview

The ever-adventurous author of Louise in Love looks to the visual arts for inspiration with this astonishing fourth collection. 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 backward in time to 1 B.C., where an architectural fragment is painted on an architectural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802141579
• ISBN13: 9780802141576
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.3"