Spring [With CDROM] Contributor(s): Buchanan, Oni (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252075641 ISBN-13: 9780252075643 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2008 Annotation: A fierce collection of innovative, emotive poetry |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
Dewey: 811.6 |
LCCN: 2008009045 |
Series: National Poetry |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.60 lbs) 128 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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." |