{"product_id":"a-film-in-which-i-play-everyone","title":"A Film in Which I Play Everyone","description":"\u003cp\u003eMary Jo Bang's brilliant poems might be the soundtrack to such a movie, where the first-person speaker plays herself and everyone she's ever met.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe falls in and out of love with men, with women, and struggles to realize her ambitions while suffering crushing losses that give rise to dark thoughts. She's drawn to stories that mirror her own condition: those of women who struggle to speak in a world that would silence them. Embedded in these poems are those minor events that inexplicably persist in the memory and become placeholders: the time she lied and had her mouth washed out with soap; the time someone said she wasn't his \"original idea of beauty but something.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003eFormat: Oversized Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePublished: UK, 2023\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003ePages: 101\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eISBN 10: 1644452472\u003cbr\u003eISBN 13: 9781644452479\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Mary Jo Bang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50628857856266,"sku":"","price":21.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9781644452479.jpg?v=1737197894","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/a-film-in-which-i-play-everyone","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}