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Mary Jo Bang

Mary Jo Bang
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.


“The Echo,” a Poem by Mary Jo Bang

From the Collection A Film in Which I Play Everyone
September 5, 2023  By Mary Jo Bang
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Mary Jo Bang Wonders Why It Takes So Long to Meet Beatrice in Dante’s Inferno

Considering the Scarcity of Female Characters in the Cantos
July 26, 2021  By Mary Jo Bang
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