Mary Jo Bang
Author

poèmes

C Is for Cher anglais

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E Is Everywhere anglais

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In the Present and Probable Future anglais

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Girls Dress Well to Stave Off Chaos anglais

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The Star's Whole Secret anglais

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Louise In Love anglais

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Catastrophe Theory IV anglais

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Mrs. Autumn and Her Two Daughters anglais

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The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity anglais

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Worse anglais

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Mary Jo Bang
Author

About

* 22.10.1946, Ferguson, États-Unis
Réside à: St. Louis, États-Unis

The poet Mary Jo Bang grew up in Ferguson, Missouri. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri where she is working at Washington University as a professor of English and as the director of the Creative Writing Program. She was awarded numerous prizes and fellowships, such as a Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Fellowship in 1997, a Yaddo Fellowship in 1998 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004. Her poems got published in various magazines like the New York Times, the Harvard Review, the New American Writing and in several anthologies like Best American Poetry. She is the recipient of various awards, including a Pushcart Prize. In 2007 she received the National Book Critics Circle Award for her book Elegy, which was estimated by the New York Times to be one of the most important books of the year. She was the poetry co-editor of the Boston Review from 1995 to 2005.

Bang contrasts in her poems a glamorous, American world with the dark regions of human existence, full of existential threat, emotional uncertainty and insatiable longing. She questions for instance the complex relation of modern media and human perception.