Must a violence : poems / by Oni Buchanan.
The author 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 social...
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| Other title: | Poems. Selections. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Iowa City, Iowa :
University of Iowa Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Kuhl House poets.
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Table of 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.