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Poetry. In THE BLOODY PLANET, Callista Buchen calls out to the geographies of the solar system, considering the local and the grand, the Earth-bound and beyond. Her speakers are searchers—through far-flung examinations and pursuits of strange landscapes, they bring us face to face with what it means to be human. On Mercury, 'Scars gather flesh— / fall apart. The ground writes, rewrites.' The speaker asks again and again: 'What does it matter?' What matters is the gravity of place. What matters is what pulls us. In these twenty gorgeous, tensile poems, Buchen explores what connects and separates, culling from the planets a universe of language, color, work, art, even love. "In THE BLOODY PLANET, Callista Buchen takes us on a breathtaking tour of the solar system, detailing the violent surfaces and inhospitable climates of each planet and leaving us in humble awe of our own. From Mercury's hot, unstable mantle to Mars's angry red dust to planet Uranus's bitter cold, Buchen stands in wonder of these planets, where 'giant spots maul whole / levels of world and swallow / themselves the dust afterwards.' In these tightly crafted poems, Buchen wisely looks beyond Earth to draw our attention to Earth, issuing a bold and urgent warning for a world on the brink of its own demise: 'See this, machine of humanity,' she writes. 'Dust only multiplies. You are marching. You are a lion. You are / THE BLOODY PLANET. You are painted red, a shrieking mouth.' Buchen's poems are significant, vital—as gorgeous and unstoppable as the alien storms they describe."—Alyse Knorr"Callista Buchen's poetic impulse, a deep-felt mission to capture the quintessence of our solar system, is far from usual. Her aim, not to anthropomorphize, nor to reduce to metaphor those spinning emblems of childhood-learning, is rather to weave, out of unexplained contacts that her speakers make with each planet, a combined mood, or hybrid psychology…I love how space infiltrates these poems; how words occupy whatever space they can, and how small the human is at times, yet how conjoined the poet makes us feel with the larger medium of life, 'fleshy swans, wet grapes,' all of it. By the end of this wondrous chapbook, everything is one medium—clay, metal, fire, virus, and definition itself becomes porous, thanks to this poet, who has seen 'all the way around… the pool of time in between.'"—Larissa Szporluk "At once intimate and expansive, and filled with discovery and wonder, the poems of THE BLOODY PLANET examine a universe that is devastating, beautiful, resilient—where image, language, and stone break open, where 'the ground writes, rewrites.' From Singapore to the 'husk and yard of Ohio,' from Mercury to the 'stylized dragonfly' of Neptune's strata, these poems breathe strange and lovely atmospheres and cover vast landscapes, searching deep beneath their rich grounds. As I read and reread this collection, I am continually awed by the haunting geology of Buchen's poems."—Amy Ash "The enticing thing about Callista Buchen's THE BLOODY PLANET is its attention to landscape. Her poems encase the spirit with the wavy lines of a topographic map, and because the knobs and knolls and flaming fields of Earth are not sufficient for the task, she is forced to enlist the rest of the solar system. 'To understand it // geologically. This is the goal,' Buchen writes, and she does a highly creditable job of the task in this arresting collection of poems."—Karen Craigo
The Bloody Planet, by Callista Buchen - Amazon Sales Rank: #2923966 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-26
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x 6.00" w x .25" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 34 pages
The Bloody Planet, by Callista Buchen About the Author Callista Buchen is the author of two chapbooks, The Bloody Planet (Black Lawrence Press, 2015), and Double-Mouthed (dancing girl press, 2016). She is the winner of DIAGRAM's essay contest and the Langston Hughes award, with work appearing in Harpur Palate, Fourteen Hills, Puerto del Sol, SalamanderWhiskey Island Review, and other journals. She teaches writing at Franklin College in Indiana.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. ‘All the excitement happens in the atmosphere.’ By Grady Harp Indiana poet Callista Buchen teaches writing at Franklin College in Indiana and her poetry is racing toward the top of the ‘interesting new poets’ list. She is the author of two chapbooks, the winner of DIAGRAM's essay contest and the Langston Hughes award, and has works that have appeared in Harpur Palate, Fourteen Hills, Puerto del Sol, SalamanderWhiskey Island Review, and other journals.Callista’s genius lies in her ability to range from the microscopic to the macroscopic universal themes and observations of the seen and the imagined. Lyrical and like hymns and plainsongs, her poems glow like unexpected magic.The Sleep of MarriageAn empty mug, the rug by the stove. We bring color samples to the hardware store were gradations of shade, lined up like a test we did not anticipate, perplex us. Concentrate, Which so you like best? No, try this one. No, that one again. I don’t know. You decide. We pick a green that feels like the type of people we had intended to be, people with pears and limes and the strength.At home, we wipe someone else’s plan form the cabinet. The accumulation of dust amazes us. Garage door open to the rain, we paint together with different kinds of brushes, you with foam, me with bristles, their songs inaudible against the grain and our hurry. We are asleep with intensity. Fumes and water funnel at the threshold, hitting the concrete in the manner of heavy, invisible citrus. We step back to consider the green and you say, the color doesn’t work in this lights. Just wait, I say. The light will change.Callista can make the most mundane sublime, and at the next moment soar us into worlds unknown – she knows both ends of the spectrum and writes it well. Grady Harp, December 15
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A Great Book of Poems to Begin the Year By Brandon Davis Jennings The Bloody Planet by Callista BuchenHaving ruminated on this book for a week now, I find myself returning time and again tothe same image in the poem "On Mars":"You are marching. You are a lion. You arethe bloody planet. You are painted red, a shrieking mouth" (14).This poem probably grabs my attention most because of how much I've been thinking about war. So I apologize if seeing my personal bias bleed through in my review is off putting, but then again if you think anyone can write an objective review about art, you're confused in ways that I don't think I can help you with. But that image is haunting in the way that the best of Norman Dubie's images are haunting, or Galway Kinnell's, and that makes sharing this book with peoplea necessity for me.There are a lot of barriers to poetry for the average joe; I include myself in this group. Poems that are more interested in language than what that language is trying to communicate are a huge problem for me; Buchen's poems are not written in that way at all.A second reason that you shouldn't let a "fear" of poetry deter you from giving this book a shot is that the book actually moves from planet to planet. So there is an order that anyone who understands how the solar system is ordered can follow. Although I am always sad when I don't see Pluto included because it makes me feel like I am getting old: a fact I should get over because I am getting older every single day that I'm alive.Not every poem is "about a planet" (and saying that any of them are "about planets" is an oversimplification). We get to spend time with between planets with bluebirds and tomatoes and a hardware store. And as grand as the planets are, I leave the book thinking more about the idea of a wasp sting that becomes a stone that falls off the speaker's arm when she runs into a door jamb in "Coherence". This image resonates with me most because of what it did not do; I think. In a book that deals so much with heavenly bodies, I wonder how great a temptation it might have been to make that stone swell into a planet of its own that orbited the sun. Rather the stone falls off and is "lost in the gravel" like so many of our small wounds and even some of our larger ones do as we experience new wounds and joys.This is a great book of poems to start the new year with, and I am glad it was the first book of poems I read this year. If you're looking for a book of poems by a young writer, this is a book you should take a chance on.
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