October 06, 2007
Mary Jo Bang: Reading Today
The first time I heard Mary Jo Bang read was at the first Art Outside, at Aaron Belz's excellent 10/10 (ten poets, ten minutes) event inside the Bottleworks. It's rare to find a quiet poet who can read as compellingly as the noisy poets; the noisy poets will grab you attention with volume, and hopefully with the volume there's something redeeming in the work itself. She read a piece called "The Eye Like a Strange Balloon," based, I think, on a Guy Maddin film of a similar name. She was not noisy, but brilliantly focused, and every word she read had a gravity to it (unlike, ironically, balloons of any sort, even strange ones). Her work actually reminds me a lot of Maddin's films - built in some silvery noir otherworld, full of images that are exotic but somehow familar, pulled up straight from the unconscious.
She's just come out with a new book, Elegy, which received raves from uber-poet Marjorie Perloff:
“The loss of a child—especially an only child who is in the prime of life—is one of the most painful experiences anyone can have and one, common sense tells us, almost impossible to render in an age of sensory overload. But Mary Jo Bang’s Elegy is the grand exception. In its insistence on “the inexhaustible / Need to be accurate,” Elegy is wholly absorbing. Avoiding all self-pity, false comfort, sentimentality or finger pointing, Bang’s terse, oblique poems anatomize grief, guilt, and mourning in pitiless detail. Do things ‘improve’ by the end of the year whose progress this heartbreaking book charts? Not really, but the reader is transformed. I know of no contemporary elegy that has its power.”
Bang is reading from her new book today (October 6) at 3 p.m., at the Big Read in Clayton at the Boeing Author Tent (on Central Avenue between Carondolet and Forsyth). Also reading today will be Carl Dennis and Sally Van Doren, with a book signing and a panel following the readings. In music, this is what you'd call a "power trio;" there's probably a more dignified poetic-like term for three accomoplished, talented poets reading together, though unfortunately my vocabulary is stunted in this regard, so I'll just have to say, "don't miss this! It's a trio of talented and accomplished poets, reading together."
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