{"product_id":"bang-mary-jo-a-doll-forpb","title":"Bang, Mary Jo: A Doll for Throwing","description":"\u003cp\u003eGraywolf, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: August 15, 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817231429655,"sku":"9781555977818","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/9781555977818.jpg?v=1703887167","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/bang-mary-jo-a-doll-forpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}