Slowly, Slowly, Horses [Hardcover]

Julianne Buchsbaum (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2001 | ISBN-10: 0967266866 | ISBN-13: 978-0967266862

Poetry. "Julianne Buchsbaum's SLOWLY, SLOWLY, HORSES is a quietly furious book. Her language is as rich and eerily fascinating as bending down to look closely at something decomposing. But this is a different sort of nature poetry - her landscape is "a pasture of taints", and her close observation of nature is really a close observation of language...There is something of Wallace Stevens in her precision, her incredible diction, and in the way her descriptions are simultaneously direct and mythical. She is also a redeemer of the simile in an age that distrusts simile; her ease and originality with them 'lingers/ like the perfume of a woman/ who has rushed from the room.' Which is exactly the case with her poems" - Matthew Rohrer.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Acolytes
Airs Of Middle Night
Alexander The Great
Anecdote Of A Manichaean
The Astronomer
Awaiting The Wreck
Birdlight
Clouds Swell Out
Concordia Discors
Damaged Intangible
Days Of No Luster
Dear Vagrant
Et In Arcadia Ego
Flame Lounge
Flutes In Tunisia
Fole A Deux
Gamblers
Green
Harrower
A House Of Cards
Invocation
Iowa River: 8/9/99
Jack Of No Trades
Landscape In December
The Laugher
Meadow Of Locusts
Misere Des Hotels
Nerve-like
New Moon Hanging
Observation
Palinode
Politician
Portraits: 1. Bird-watcher
Portraits: 2. Beauty Queen
Portraits: 3. Trojan
The Prodigal
Prophet Of Woe
Queen Of Ultima Thule
Reasons
Scarred
Seapieces
Slowly, Slowly, Horses
Vinyl Records
Wanhope
Winnowing
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About the Author

Julianne Buchsbaum received her MFA from the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a 1999 Paul Engle Fellowship from the James Michener Foundation. Her work has been published in numerous magazines. She lives and works in Gambier, Ohio.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 96 pages
• Publisher: Ausable Press (June 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967266866
• ISBN-13: 978-0967266862
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,538,089 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Restrained but Riveting, September 5, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Slowly, Slowly, Horses (Paperback)

Julianne Buchsbaum's poems are impressive for their clarity and exquisite control. In a brocaded style reminiscent of the early, less vitriolic Sylvia Plath, she offers compelling meditations on the self, the natural world, and the enigmas of personal fate.

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Horses, May 8, 2005

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This review is from: Slowly, Slowly, Horses (Paperback)

Here's a book that draws back the pall of every short-circuited love. Quiet but powerful. A wave of wild horses.

5.0 out of 5 stars Slowly, slowy, horses, October 28, 2004

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This review is from: Slowly, Slowly, Horses (Hardcover)

Julianne Buchsbaum's SLOWLY, SLOWLY HORSES is a quietly furious book. Her language is as rich and eerily fascinating as bending down to look closely at something decomposing. . . There is something of Wallace Stevens in her precision, her incredible diction, and in the way her descriptions are simultaneously direct and mythical.-Matthew Rohrer