In this stunning new collection of poems, Mary Jo Bang jettisons the reader into the dreamlike world of Louise, a woman in love. With language delicate, smooth, and wryly funny, Louise is on a voyage without destination, traveling with a cast of enigmatic others, including her lover, Ham. Louise is as musical as she is mysterious and the reader is invited to listen. In her world, anything goes, provided it is breathtaking. Bang, whose first collection was the prize-winning Apology for Want, both parodies and pays homage to the lyric tradition, borrowing its lush music and dramatic structure to give new voice to the old concerns of the late Romantic poets. Louise in Love is a dramatic postmodern verse-novel with an eloquent free-floating narration. The poems, rife with literary allusion, take journeys to distant lands. And, like anyone on a voyage without a destination, they are endlessly questioning of the enigmatic world around them.

Author: Mary Jo Bang
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 12/14/2000
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.23d
ISBN: 9780802137609


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/06/2000 pg. 84
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2000 pg. 1728
Library Journal 12/01/2000 pg. 145
Booklist 01/01/2001 pg. 902
New York Times 03/04/2001 pg. 23
Library Journal 12/20/2000