e i n f ü h l u n g/in feeling
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Gathered under the transcontinental title einfühlung/in feeling, these poems serve as attestations to borders crossed, to exterior and interior landscapes spanned. Whether charting Michigan fields, cafés of Vienna, or the mountains of the Andes, Mary Buchinger is a dauntless traveler, unearthing extraordinary narratives buried deep within these terrains—carefully drawing up and out the details embedded in emotional and intellectual maps. Here is a veritable book of journeys. In it, Buchinger engages in the best kind of cartography. —Danielle Legros Georges, Poet Laureate, City of Boston, Author of the Dear Remote Nearness of You
I/ too am nothing/ but an ecstasy made/ of webs, writes Mary Buchinger, and the poems in einfühlung/ in feelingexplore the delicate filaments that connect the past to the present, the self to the world. These poems grapple with the complexities of empathy and the realization that there is no recipe for transcendence. And yet Buchinger’s unflinching insights lead us to something even deeper – what it means to reconcile what is/ to what was/ to find the divine/ in change. —Ben Berman
I/ too am nothing/ but an ecstasy made/ of webs, writes Mary Buchinger, and the poems in einfühlung/ in feelingexplore the delicate filaments that connect the past to the present, the self to the world. These poems grapple with the complexities of empathy and the realization that there is no recipe for transcendence. And yet Buchinger’s unflinching insights lead us to something even deeper – what it means to reconcile what is/ to what was/ to find the divine/ in change. —Ben Berman