by Mary Jo Bang
Thanks also to the editors of the following magazines and anthologies where individual poems appeared: The Berlin Journal: ONE GLASS NEGATIVE, SELF-PORTRAIT AS A PHOTOGRAPH OF A PLATTER, and ME, A CHRONICLE; The Best American Poetry 2017, David Lehman and Natasha Trethewey, eds, Scribner: ADMISSION; Between the Breath and the Abyss: Poetics about Beauty (bilingual anthology), Keila Vall, ed, Editorial Ígneo: THE DOLL SONG; BOMB: THE GAME OF ROLES, A BALLET BASED ON THE NUMBER THREE, THE EXPRESSION OF EMOTIONS, and THE MISSING NEGATIVES; Poems for Political Disaster, Timothy Donnelly, Barbara Fischer, Stefania Heim, eds, Boston Review Chapbook: IN NOVEMBER WE INCHED CLOSER; February, an Anthology, Paul Legault et. al., eds: THE MIRROR; Granta (online): A NUMBERED GRAPH THAT SHOWS HOW EACH PART OF THE BODY WOULD FIT INTO A CHAIR; Liberation: New Works on Freedom, Mark Ludwig, ed, Beacon Press: ONE PHOTOGRAPH OF A ROOFTOP; The New Yorker: HAVING BOTH THE PRESENT AND FUTURE IN MIND and THE HEAD OF A DANCER; Oversound: A MODEL OF A MACHINE, NEWS OF THE DAY, and IN THIS PHOTOGRAPH I AM UNTITLED; The Paris Review: ADMISSION, AN ANATOMICAL STUDY, SELF-PORTRAIT IN THE BATHROOM MIRROR, and IN THE GARDEN BEHIND THE MASTER’S HOUSE; Poetry: PORTRAIT IN THE FORM OF EPHEMERA and THE HUMAN FIGURE IN A DRESS; The Poetry Foundation Website: TWO NUDES; Still Life with Poem: 100 Natures Mortes in Verse, Jehanne Dubrow and Lindsay Lusby, eds, Literary House Press: THE BRACELET; T Magazine, The New York Times: LONG-EXPOSURE PHOTOGRAPH OF A MAN; Tupelo Quarterly: MASK PHOTO, THE TRANSFORMATION ANXIETY DREAM, TOMB IN THREE PARTS, and OUR GAME. OUR PARTY. OUR WORK.; Vallum: THE SCURRYING WHITE MICE DISAPPEAR.
STILL LIFE WITH GLASSES is for Hiroaki Sato (with thanks to and for the late Shuzo Takiguchi who brought us together). THE EXPRESSION OF EMOTIONS is for Barbara Elliott Martin. GESTURE DANCE DIAGRAM is for Ken Botnick.
MARY JO BANG is the author of seven previous poetry collections, including The Last Two Seconds and Elegy, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and a New York Times Notable Book. She has also published an acclaimed translation of Dante’s Inferno. Bang has received a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin. She is a professor of English and teaches in the creative writing program at Washington University in Saint Louis.
The text of A Doll for Throwing is set in ITC Franklin Gothic Book, original design by Morris Fuller Benton, 1902. Titles are Druk Text Medium Italic, designed by Berton Hasebe at Commercial Type Foundry, 2012. Design and composition by Ken Botnick at Emdash Design Studio, Saint Louis, Missouri. Manufactured by Versa Press on acid-free, 30 percent postconsumer wastepaper.