"A Film in Which I Play Everyone takes its title from a response David Bowie gave to a fan who asked if he had upcoming film roles. 'I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized autobiography that I am writing,' Bowie answered. 'Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.' Mary Jo Bang's brilliant poems might be the...

This latest book by the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winner is distinctive among her 17 volumes for . . . the hard lesson that this earth is fallen and fragile . . . and unless we learn to cherish [it], we will destroy it--"America" magazine.