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1 online resource (121 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Kuhl House poets
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Kuhl House poets.
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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. |
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Outsource the BurningOtherworldly Thirst; This World; See; I Was a Whale; Younger and Younger; The Sun Turns Like a Pinwheel. |
| 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. Compassi. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Poetry.
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Poetry. |
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American poetry.
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American poetry. |
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Electronic books.
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Poetry.
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Poetry.
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Poems. Selections
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Print version: Buchanan, Oni, 1975- Poems. Selections. Must a violence. Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press, [2012] 9781609381295 (DLC) 2012932829 (OCoLC)785511232 |
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9781609381332 (electronic book) |
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1609381335 (electronic book) |
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9781609381295 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1609381297 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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