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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: doll for throwing
    sub title: poems
  title info:
    title: Poems. Selections
  name:
    name part: Bang, Mary Jo
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mnu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 76 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: A Doll for Throwing takes its title from the Bauhaus artist Alma Siedhoff-Buscher's Wurfpuppe, 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.
  note: Mary Jo Bang.
  subject:
    topic: American poetry
    temporal: 21st century
  classification: PS3552.A47546 A6 2017
  classification: 811/.54
  identifier: 1555977812
  identifier: 9781555977818
  identifier: 2016951417
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 160826
    record change date: 20180214131231.0
    record identifier: in00003885582