{"product_id":"a-doll-for-throwing-mary-jo-bang-9781555977818","title":"A Doll for Throwing: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe exquisite new collection by the award-winning poet Mary Jo Bang, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Last Two Seconds\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eElegy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe were ridiculous--me, with my high jinks and hat. Him, with his boredom and drink. I look back now and see buildings so thick that the life I thought I was making then is nothing but interlocking angles and above them, that blot of gray sky I sometimes saw. Underneath is the edge of what wasn't known then. When I would go. When I would come back. What I would be when.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e--from \"One Glass Negative\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Doll for Throwing\u003c\/i\u003e takes its title from the Bauhaus artist Alma Siedhoff-Buscher's \u003ci\u003eWurfpuppe\u003c\/i\u003e, a flexible and durable woven doll that, if thrown, would land with grace. A ventriloquist is also said to \"throw\" her voice into a doll that rests on the knee. Mary Jo Bang's prose poems in this fascinating book create a speaker who had been a part of the Bauhaus school in Germany a century ago and who had also seen the school's collapse when it was shut by the Nazis in 1933. Since this speaker is not a person but only a construct, she is also equally alive in the present and gives voice to the conditions of both time periods: nostalgia, xenophobia, and political extremism. The life of the Bauhaus photographer Lucia Moholy echoes across these poems--the end of her marriage, the loss of her negatives, and her effort to continue to make work and be known for having made it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary Jo Bang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1555977812\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555977818\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/26\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2017","brand":"Mary Jo Bang","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47135376867583,"sku":"9781555977818","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0076a8d5-b344-4926-ad43-dc7d030260e6.jpg?v=1755009964","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-doll-for-throwing-mary-jo-bang-9781555977818","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}