{"product_id":"the-downstream-extremity-of-the-isle-of-swans-poems-9780820322926","title":"The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Mary Jo Bang\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis compelling book takes its title from Samuel Beckett's \u003ci\u003eOhio Impromptu\u003c\/i\u003e. In Beckett's play, a grieving beloved seeks relief from the haunting presence of a departed lover in a place where \"From its single window he could see the downstream extremity of the Isle of Swans.\" With a bow to Beckett's style and linguistic playfulness, Mary Jo Bang's collection of poems deals compassionately and gracefully with the tangible world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBang's savvy alliterative insistence sweeps the reader along, as her poems collectively offer a world delicately structured from memorable fragments of experience, emotion, things, and places--inside and outside the human psyche.","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47590996607127,"sku":"9780820322926","price":2503.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780820322926.webp?v=1774971245","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-downstream-extremity-of-the-isle-of-swans-poems-9780820322926","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}