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Mary Buchinger's The Book of Shores is a meditation into the nature of being, one that recognizes that "there once was a self/ known only to self// who carried the sea/ wherever she went." The verses in this collection are both restless and still, formally inventive and thrumming with lines that are "always talking/ about more than one thing." It's a collection that takes risks to name the ineffable, to chart the topography of one's interior landscape, to "[l]ift its lithosphere/ as you would/ the lid of a chest" so that we might explore "within its rifts and/ escarpment something in there/ making new an immensity/ that will not diminish."
-Brian Turner, author of The Wild Delight of Wild Things
About the author
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.
