Apology for Want
Poems
by Mary Jo Bang
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There is a keenness in the poems of Apology for Want that one rarely encounters in a first collection, an unfailing and unflinching exactitude—of language, of metaphor, of emotion. Mary Jo Bang is a poet of unerring discernment, of uncanny perspicacity. The precision in these poems is never gratuitous; this is fine furniture where every nail is driven by necessity. Bang delineates the all-too-human condition of gazing and longing and gives us cautionary tales of what happens to those who shun restraint and yield instead to desperate attempts at satisfaction.
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Apology for Want: Poems
July 1, 1997, University Press of New England
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0874518210 9780874518214
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 70-71).
"The Katharine Bakeless Nason literary publication prizes"--P. facing t.p.
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