Tag: Callista Buchen
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Callista Buchen’s debut prose poetry collection LOOK LOOK LOOK, reviewed by Christen Kauffman
Look at the mother—the way her body is a house, a machine, a haven, a raw collection of love and devastation in the wake of her children’s entrance into the world. Look at how her body becomes foreign, becomes open wound, becomes blood memory, is reborn at the bottom of the sea. Look at how…
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Poetry Collaboration: “Archeology as Prayer” by Amy Ash & Callista Buchen
Archeology as Prayer Let us breathe the dust that was once bone, how we taste the sweat, the steps. Wekneel before the altar of night, stars carved into pattern. It is one of those things, we say. You hear us sift through shadow and dust. We try to tell you what we need, what we…
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ORDINARY MISFORTUNES, a poetry chapbook by Emily Jungmin Yoon, reviewed by Callista Buchen
Chosen by Maggie Smith as the winner of Tupelo Press’ Sunken Garden Poetry Prize, Emily Jungmin Yoon’s chapbook Ordinary Misfortunes considers sexual violence against women, investigating the varied forces that enact and normalize it, while also focusing on what such violence means for women. In particular, as Ordinary Misfortunes weaves together historical and contemporary times,…