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- Spring
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
- Series: National Poetry Series
summary
2009 Massachusetts Book Awards Winner
Representing nothing less than a tour-de-force of formal invention and emotional intensity, Oni Buchanan’s Spring encompasses radically contrasting work. Ecstatic, visually intricate rhapsodies are juxtaposed with tight, sonnet-like poems, and wispy columns of verse brush up against large-scale epics and kinetic text. This collection’s point of departure is the paradox of existence as an individual in a political and violent world. All of the formal innovations in this book have in common an urgent need for texture and polyphony, and the poems attempt to discover how to fulfill the individual human responsibility of surviving as a resiliently loving and hopeful living creature. An accompanying multimedia compact disc offers a full Flash-animated version of the printed kinetic work, “The Mandrake Vehicles.”
Representing nothing less than a tour-de-force of formal invention and emotional intensity, Oni Buchanan’s Spring encompasses radically contrasting work. Ecstatic, visually intricate rhapsodies are juxtaposed with tight, sonnet-like poems, and wispy columns of verse brush up against large-scale epics and kinetic text. This collection’s point of departure is the paradox of existence as an individual in a political and violent world. All of the formal innovations in this book have in common an urgent need for texture and polyphony, and the poems attempt to discover how to fulfill the individual human responsibility of surviving as a resiliently loving and hopeful living creature. An accompanying multimedia compact disc offers a full Flash-animated version of the printed kinetic work, “The Mandrake Vehicles.”
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. vii
- The Smallest Plant
- p. xii
- I
- The Floor-Creatures Begin
- pp. 3-4
- Song Cycle
- pp. 5-6
- The Sleepers
- pp. 8-9
- And on the Seventh Day
- pp. 11-12
- (A) Version
- p. 13
- A Palimpsest of the Tasks
- pp. 14-15
- II
- Envelopes of Sky
- pp. 21-22
- Like a Near Fold
- pp. 23-24
- Sublimation Attempt
- pp. 25-26
- Or Portals to Another World
- pp. 32-42
- III
- The Lonely Animal
- pp. 45-46
- IV
- Text Message
- pp. 65-66
- The Practice
- pp. 67-68
- That’s Enough, Mr. Butterfly
- pp. 69-70
- The Return
- pp. 71-72
- A Hood Is Like an Ancient Chalice
- pp. 73-74
- Maroon Canoe
- pp. 75-76
- Today Mr. Rufo
- p. 77
- V. The Mandrake Vehicles
- Note on the Mandrake Form
- pp. 85-87
- [Mandrake Vehicle 1]
- pp. 88-94
- [Mandrake Vehicle 2]
- pp. 95-101
- [Mandrake Vehicle 3]
- pp. 102-108
- About the Author
- p. 109
Additional Information
ISBN
9780252090684
Related ISBN(s)
9780252033643, 9780252075643
MARC Record
OCLC
785781192
Pages
128
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2008