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Mary Jo Bang in conversation with Timothy Donnelly

September 23, 2021 - 7:00pm

Prairie Lights Virtual - Zoom

Please join us for a reading and conversation with Mary Jo Bang to celebrate the release of Purgatorio. She will be joined in conversation by Timothy Donnelly.

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Award-winning translator Susan Bernofsky says of the book, “After Mary Jo Bang’s brilliant time-traveling Inferno, I couldn’t wait for her Purgatorio, which turns out to be every bit as meaty, luscious, erudite, straight-talking, and joyful as I had hoped. Bang has an uncanny sense of how to slip inside and between Dante’s lines, guiding us along his most perilous paths.

Mary Jo Bang: has published eight poetry collections, including A Doll for Throwing and Elegy, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and new translations of Dante’s Inferno and Purgatorio. She teaches at Washington University in Saint Louis.

Timothy Donnelly  is the author of The Problem of the Many, The Cloud Corporation , which won the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit . His chapbook Hymn to Life was recently published by Factory Hollow Press and with John Ashbery and Geoffrey G. O’Brien he is the co-author of Three Poets published by Minus A Press in 2012. He is a recipient of The Paris Review’s Bernard F. Conners Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award as well as fellowships from the New York State Writers Institute and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is Director of Poetry in the Writing Program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and lives in Brooklyn with his family.