St. Mary’s College of Maryland's Department of English, the Arts Alliance, the LFA, and VOICES Reading Series proudly present Poet Ann Buechner.
Thursday, January 29
8:15 PM, Daugherty-Palmer Commons
Ann Buechner was born in South Korea and grew up in Madison, WI. She has taught at Cornell University—where she also received her MFA in 2005—and at Seoul Language Institute in Busan, South Korea. Her poems have appeared in The Madison Review, Equilibrium, and Barrelhouse. Poems are also forthcoming in Patrick Somerville’s novel The Cradle, which will be published in March '09. Her work is mainly concerned with collisions and elisions; she is fascinated with the way we pull meaning out of (or push meaning onto) stories, so content-wise, she works a lot with fractured narrative, in which the relationship between existing stories (whether they be pulled from folklore or religion or popular culture) and "real" stories is blurred, forced together, and pulled apart. Because of this fascination with such "mythologies," she is also obsessed with the manipulation of the image and the icon—nothing is particularly sacred for sacred's sake. Ann aims for synesthesia in her poems. She hopes that they feel like a group of strange people in a waiting room: layered and varied in story and stance, tone and voice.
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This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served after the reading.
ETA: After a Google search and seeing this quote, I think that I must go.
She also has the brilliant habit, of which I am undisguisedly envious, of summing up her reactions to movies in single, hilarious sentences. Most recently, after Crash, which I liked and she didn't: "I feel like Paul Haggis is sitting at his typewriter, calling over his shoulder, 'Hey baby, can you help me think of something racist to say to an Asian person?'"
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