Mary Jo Bang is the author of seven books of poems and a translation of Dante’s Inferno (with illustrations by Henrik Drescher). Her most recent collection is The Last Two Seconds. She is a Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, where she teaches in the Creative Writing Program.
‘It’s a simple truth that one can occupy two / places at one time while sitting in a chair—the same way a / poseable doll can be divided from her dress.’
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