Spring : poems / by Oni Buchanan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buchanan, Oni, 1975-

Series:

National poetry series.

Illinois poetry series.

The national poetry series

Illinois poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spring--Poetry.

Spring.

Illinois--Poetry.

Illinois.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (129 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

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."

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

The Smallest Plant

I.

The Floor-Creatures Begin

Song Cycle

Amaryllis

The Sleepers

Vespers

And on the Seventh Day

(A) Version

A Palimpsest of the Tasks

Still-Life with Interior

And of the Words Afterwards

II.

Envelopes of Sky

Like a Near Fold

Sublimation Attempt

Solstice

Where Are They Now, Unwilling Friends

The Word

Or Portals to Another World

III.

The Lonely Animal

Dear Lonely Animal [Please share my Korean food with me]

Dear Lonely Animal [Last night I wanted nachos again]

Dear Lonely Animal [I miss you. The other animals]

Dear Lonely Animal [Let's have a collection competition]

Dear Lonely Animal [Sometimes I could just]

Dear Lonely Animal [I'm writing to you from the loneliest, most]

IV.

Text Message

The Practice

That's Enough, Mr. Butterfly

The Return

A Hood Is Like an Ancient Chalice

Maroon Canoe

Today Mr. Rufo

The Bells

Spring

V. The Mandrake Vehicles

Note on the Mandrake Form

[Mandrake Vehicle I]

[not knowing enough to shriek when (not knowing when), they]

(grid remainder after letter liftoff)

(liquid layer I, excerpt)

[Towing no ghost, no wing, the]

(liquid layer 2, excerpt

Winnowing heart

[Mandrake Vehicle 2]

[while the outpour, while the spilling tenets of green, the green]

(liquid layer 1, excerpt)

[Weep, Lethe's linnets, greet]

(liquid layer 2, excerpt)

[Thin paeans rust]

[Mandrake Vehicle 3]

[for it promised sleep in delicate voice, for how must the]

[Poised sin: deliver. Oust]

(grid remainder after letter liftoff).

(liquid layer 2, excerpt)

[Silver U.S. bombs].

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613135605

9781283135603

1283135604

9780252090684

0252090683

OCLC:

785781192