Roomful of Sparrows
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Mary Buchinger’s poems bring the outdoors lovingly indoors. They bring the goldfish to his bowl, the pet snail to his tank, the hyena to the children’s board game. This is not dislocation, it is domestication. Even the moths beat their “white wings” against the screen to get into her poems. With her delicate perceptions of the tiny and microscopic, Buchinger invites us to see, if not the universe in a grain of sand, then possibly the halo about the humble sidewalk pigeon. At such times she is truly a mystic poet.
Victor Howes, author of The Lobsterman's Daughter
These beautiful poems shine with intelligence, as they connect human and animal, natural and spiritual worlds. A poet of contrasts, whose knowledge of science adds distinction to her voice, Buchinger turns an ordinary city morning into a pastoral (Sequence), a sidewalk pigeon into a meditation on the soul (“Redeem/ the unread vision in the higher dream”). Celebrating life with wit and love while acknowledging its transience, Buchinger is in essence a seeker of alliances among all living creatures. Her fine book makes us aware that we are interdependent, that we must spend our brief time together in “this roomful of sparrows/ too close to sorrow.”
-- Susan Donnelly,
author of Transit
Victor Howes, author of The Lobsterman's Daughter
These beautiful poems shine with intelligence, as they connect human and animal, natural and spiritual worlds. A poet of contrasts, whose knowledge of science adds distinction to her voice, Buchinger turns an ordinary city morning into a pastoral (Sequence), a sidewalk pigeon into a meditation on the soul (“Redeem/ the unread vision in the higher dream”). Celebrating life with wit and love while acknowledging its transience, Buchinger is in essence a seeker of alliances among all living creatures. Her fine book makes us aware that we are interdependent, that we must spend our brief time together in “this roomful of sparrows/ too close to sorrow.”
-- Susan Donnelly,
author of Transit