Mary Jo Bang
Mary Jo Bang
Reading Date: Thursday, October 6, 2011
Introduction-6003
by Christopher Nelson
Opening Remarks-6005
"Masquerade"-6007
Published version bears the title "Masquerade: After Beckmann."
Annotation:
Bang, Mary Jo. The Last Two Seconds. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2015.
"The Numbers"-6009
Bang, Mary Jo. The Last Two Seconds. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2015.
"An Autopsy of an Era"-6011
Bang, Mary Jo. The Last Two Seconds. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2015.
"Opened and Shut"-6013
Bang, Mary Jo. The Last Two Seconds. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2015.
"There She Was"-6015
Bang, Mary Jo. The Last Two Seconds. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2015.
"The Circus Watcher"-6017
Bang, Mary Jo. The Last Two Seconds. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2015.
"Canto III" from Dante's Inferno-6019
translated by Mary Jo Bang
Annotation:
Alighieri, Dante. "Canto III." Inferno. Trans. Mary Jo Bang. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2012.
"At the Moment of Beginning"-6021
Bang, Mary Jo. The Last Two Seconds. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2015.
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Series: Fall Reading Series
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center
Location(s): UA Poetry Center
In this reading, originally given with Joni Wallace, Mary Jo Bang reads poems that would go on to be collected in The Last Two Seconds (2015) as well as a segment from her translation of "Canto III" of Dante's Inferno (2012).

- translation
- death
- history
- language
- religion
- god
- dante
- art
- grief
- pain
- alphabet
- ekphrasis
- cold war
- holocaust
- imagery
- alliteration
- erasure
- inferno
- world war ii
- germany
- books
- sadness
- canto
- sin
- guggenheim fellowship
- literature
- hell
- conceit
- Virginia Woolf
- constraint
- paintings
- Divine Comedy
- vernacular
- assonance
- internal rhyme
- punishment
- eternity
- purgatory
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