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 for other creatures (wild or domesticated, and sometimes both) is born of perception, of the hard limits and surprising insights encountered by attending to the bodies, gestures, and plights of others. In Must a Violence , the tones and personalities vary widely but trust is always placed in the five senses. These poems gather and relay extraordinary sense data, from inaudible sounds to long-absent smells. These deeply musical poems demand the reader attend to their sounds: to the waveforms, repetitions, durations, and delicate interrelationships of words. In sounding out the problem of how to respond to violence and to the betrayal and domestication of that which is wild, this book counters with aesthetic violence and disruption of its own, opening the self to the unexpected powers of the senses and to encounters between "wildness" and "domestication" within the self. Though never easy, this openness creates the possibility for an all-enveloping love that touches and joins all animals, both nonhuman and human.

On the Shoreline of Knowledge Irish Wanderings

Must a violence : poems

Buchanan, Oni, 1975- author

Literatura norteamericana (E-libro), Iowa City, 2012

Kuhl House poets, 1st ed, Iowa City, 2012

Kuhl House poets, Iowa City, Iowa, 2012

United States, United States of America

2, 2012-10-01

1, PS, 2012

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<p>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 for other creatures (wild or domesticated, and sometimes both) is born of perception, of the hard limits and surprising insights encountered by attending to the bodies, gestures, and plights of others. In Must a Violence, the tones and personalities vary widely but trust is always placed in the five senses. These poems gather and relay extraordinary sense data, from inaudible sounds to long-absent smells. These deeply musical poems demand the reader attend to their sounds: to the waveforms, repetitions, durations, and delicate interrelationships of words.<br></p><p>In sounding out the problem of how to respond to violence and to the betrayal and domestication of that which is wild, this book counters with aesthetic violence and disruption of its own, opening the self to the unexpected powers of the senses and to encounters between "wildness" and "domestication" within the self. Though never easy, this openness creates the possibility for an all-enveloping love that touches and joins all animals, both nonhuman and human.<br></p>

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

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.--publisher Description. 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 -- 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 -- Little Pig -- Must A Violence -- Everybody -- Attention Span -- The Occupation -- Jury Duty -- This Here Minute -- Mechanics -- Sometimes A Body -- Has His Smell And Taste -- The Wild Rabbit -- Outsource The Burning -- Otherworldly Thirst -- This World -- See -- I Was A Whale -- Younger And Younger -- The Sun Turns Like A Pinwheel. 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 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

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