A Film in Which I Play Everyone
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Book information
Graywolf Press
UK
2023
Oversized Paperback
101
Standard
321230
978-1-64445-247-9
1-64445-247-2
American poetry; 21st century.
Annotation
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.
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