“Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," The New Yorker
Item
- Title
- “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus," The New Yorker
- Description
- Published just months before Elegy (Graywolf Press, 2007), this poem reimagines Bruegel’s painting to reflect on themes of loss, absence, and emotional distance. (William Carlos Williams, an American modernist poet, also wrote a poem by the same title. And WH Auden alluded to the painting in his poem Musee de Beaux Art.) Bang draws a parallel between the mythic fall and personal grief, showing how tragedy often unfolds unnoticed by the world.
- Date
- 2007-03-12
- Type
- Periodicals
- Creator
- Bang, Mary Jo, 1946-
- Source
- Mary Jo Bang Papers
- Identifier
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ms154-s11_6-b89-f20-003.jpg - Rights
- In Copyright
Bang, Mary Jo, 1946-. “Landscape With the Fall of Icarus," The New Yorker. 2007, Some days, everything is a machine: The Poetic Practices of Mary Jo Bang, accessed March 13, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/born-digital-poetry-exhibit/item/60032