After Great Pain

Poet Mary Jo Bang reads at UMMA

by Keith Taylor

posted 4/14/2009

There are at least a couple of ways of reading a book of poetry. You can jump around in it, looking for individual gems that move your fancy—or you can read the whole thing from beginning to end, including even the blurbs, the dedications, and the acknowledgements. Mary Jo Bang’s Elegy asks for the latter.

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