A Film in Which I Play Everyone: Poems Bang Mary Jo
A Film in Which I Play Everyone: Poems Bang Mary Jo A Film in Which I Play Everyone takes its title from a response David Bowie gave to a fan who asked if he had upcoming film roles. "Hopefully, this…
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A Film in Which I Play Everyone: Poems Bang Mary Jo
A Film in Which I Play Everyone takes its title from a response David Bowie gave to a fan who asked if he had upcoming film roles. "Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody."Mary Jo Bang's brilliant poems might be the soundtrack to such a movie, where the first-person speaker plays herself and everyone she's ever met. "I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized autobiography that I am writing," Bowie answered.
She's drawn to stories that mirror her own condition: those of women who struggle to speak in a world that would silence them. She falls in and out of love with men, with women, and struggles to realize her ambitions while suffering crushing losses that give rise to dark thoughts. Embedded in these poems are those minor events
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