Description:
The making of meaning from ephemera is a profoundly human activity-the poems in this collection spring from this urge. The title / klaʊdz / is the phonetic transcription of 'clouds'- the symbols indicate how to pronounce the word. Like clouds, sounds are re-combinable elements with shifting meanings and outcomes, both consequential and transient and subject to randomness and governed by physics. Each poem plays with its subject- roams within its confines and pushes against (sometimes through) the walls of its meanings. The topics range from the concrete- "hive," "camisole," "lantern" - to the abstract- "resurrection," "absence," "derivation."
Brief description: Mary Buchinger is the author of e i n f ü h l u n g/in feeling (Main Street Rag, 2018), Aerialist (Gold Wake, 2015, finalist for the May Swenson Poetry Award, semifinalist for The Journal /Wheeler and Perugia Press Prizes), Navigating the Reach (forthcoming, Salmon Poetry), and Virology (forthcoming, Lily Poetry Review Books). She grew up in rural Michigan, volunteered in Ecuador for the Peace Corps, earned a doctorate in linguistics from Boston University. President of the New England Poetry Club and professor at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, she lives in Cambridge with her husband, dog, and cats.