"What will you teach us, O Plague?" is the central question in VIROLOGY. In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, each day offered up startling revelations of science and society. We learned that we can harm and be harmed by what we cannot see and what we choose not to see; that the world is made of worlds. We learned about connection and separation; that we live and dream in interdependent spheres; that what is peripheral can become central. These are poems of paying attention within a shifting landscape that asks us, Who are you? Who are you, today?
"What will you teach us, O Plague?" is the central question in VIROLOGY. In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, each day offered up startling revelations of science and society. We learned that we can harm and be harmed by what we cannot see and what we choose not to see; that the world is made of worlds. We learned about connection and separation; that we live and dream in interdependent spheres; that what is peripheral can become central. These are poems of paying attention within a shifting landscape that asks us, Who are you? Who are you, today?
Mary Buchinger is the author of /klaudz /(Lily Poetry Review Books, 2021), 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), and Navigating the Reach (forthcoming, Salmon Poetry). She grew up in rural Michigan, volunteered in Ecuador for the Peace Corps, holds a doctorate in linguistics from Boston University. Mary serves on the board of the New England Poetry Club and teaches at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. She lives in Cambridge with her husband, dog, and cats.
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