The poems in The Eye Like a Strange Balloon find their seed in paintings, film, video, photographs, and collage, and the end results are something more than a sum of their parts. Beginning with a painting done in 2003, the poems move backwards in time to 1 BC, where an architectural fragment is painted on an architectural fragment, highlighting visual art's strange relationship between the image and the thing itself. The total effect is exhilarating--a wholly original, personal take on art history coupled with Bang's sly and elegant commentary on poetry's enduring subjects: Love, Death, Time and Desire. The recipient of numerous prizes and awards, Bang stands at the front of American poetry with this new work, asking more of the English language, and enticing and challenging the reader.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 09/29/2004
ISBN: 9780802141576
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.58w x 0.32d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 10/18/2004 pg. 61
New York Times 11/21/2004 pg. 26
Booklist 11/15/2004 pg. 547
Library Journal 01/15/2005 pg. 116
Library Journal 01/01/2005