Must a violence : poems / by Oni Buchanan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buchanan, Oni.

Series:

Kuhl House Poets

Kuhl house poets

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence.

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (132 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Oni Buchanan explores the problem of violence against the undefended, elemental self through a variety of emotional and linguistic responses. The violation itself is unspecified but involves the forced transformation from an instinctual, animal self, housed in the body and in the senses, into a socialized, time-based "citizen," familiar with death, decay, and systemic injustice. This exploration plays out through the twin challenges of perception and compassion. Perception can bind us to the known world or cut us loose in dangerous, horrific territory. Compassion

Contents:

Contents; I.; Then From Our Green Branch; No Blue Morpho; When All the Leaves; The Cheshire Cat; An Infection; December 24; A Long Blue Distance; "He Who Roams the Plains"; If You Love an Animal; II.; Chant of the Killing Jar; Tactical Subordinates; Don't Fall, Baba; I Heard Her Long Hair Making Five Sounds; Five Tiny Doves; Palais de Mari; Selection; The Worms; 17-Year Diagnosis; Two-Starred Constellation; III.; Little Pig; IV.; Must a Violence; Everybody; Attention Span; The Occupation; Jury Duty; This Here Minute; Mechanics; Sometimes a Body; Has His Smell and Taste; V.; The Wild Rabbit

Outsource the Burning Otherworldly Thirst; This World; See; I Was a Whale; Younger and Younger; The Sun Turns Like a Pinwheel

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781609381332

1609381335

OCLC:

812570477