Buy both Aerialist and Roomful of Sparrows together
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In Aerialist we are brought to hover over definitions of history, of what the past means to those lost in their burials as well as the living seekers. The narratives that come to the poet are tombs to be opened with song, as these poems speak of life made sublime in a quest for love amongst the silences of the past, and in the loud music of what lives.
—Afaa Weaver, Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Winner, author of The Plum Flower Trilogy and A Hard Summation
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
—Afaa Weaver, Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Winner, author of The Plum Flower Trilogy and A Hard Summation
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