Blue Physics

by Mary Lou Buschi, Eileen Cleary (editor), Martha Mccollough (designer)

Through textured landscapes and vivid, bittersweet memories, Mary Lou Buschi invites us into a life in which “not everyone wants to be found.” These restrained and tender poems which explore grief, family and growing up Catholic in the 1970s also speak to the riddles of life, death and haunting. In a world where “a Cardinal with one wing whispers our names” and where “white clouds, the size of Bowhead whales” loom in our atmosphere, what does it mean to love and to remember? Blue Physics captures the essence of what it means to “open your mouth wide when you bite the sun,” to acknowledge the burdens, mysteries and magic all around us as we go on “aiming at some cold invisible moon,” and even as we “disappear into a flask of light.”

Joan Kwon Glass, Author of Night Swim (Diode Editions, 2022)

78 pages, Paperback

First published February 7, 2024

About the author

Mary Lou Buschi holds an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College and a Master of Science in Urban Education from Mercy College. She has taught creative writing and literature in the SPS division of New York University. Mary Lou Buschi is the author of 2 full-length poetry collections and 3 chapbooks, most recently, Paddock, through Lily Poetry Review Books(LPR). Her next book, Blue Physics, will be out in January, 2024 through LPR. Mary Lou’s poems have appeared in many literary journals such as Ploughshares (forthcoming), Indiana Review, 2River, The Laurel Review, and Against the Seawall. Currently, she lives in Nyack and teaches in the Bronx. For more information: https://www.maryloubuschi.com

Reviews

[Toby Linder · Rating 5 out of 5]

I didn't know that I could be so drawn in by a book of poetry. This book was excruciatingly beautiful. I thought I'd sit down and read a few pages before bed, but I read straight through to the end, and was sad when it was over.