Buckley, Christopher, 1948-

Star journal selected poems / Christopher Buckley. - Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, (c)2016. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, (c)2015). Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, (c)2016. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, (c)2015). (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, (c)2015). - 1 online resource (1 PDF (133 pages).). - Pitt poetry series .

Includes bibliographies and index.

1979-1997; Why I'm in Favor of a Nuclear Freeze; Dust Light, Leaves; Halley's Comet from the West Coast, March 22, 1986; Evening in Santorini; Star Journal; Prima Facie; Midlife; Father, 1952; There and Then; The Presocratic, Surfing, Breathing Cosmology Blues . . .; Camino Cielo; Sycamore Canyon Nocturne; 1998-2006; Sleep Walk; Opera; Vacuum Genesis; Astronomy Lesson: At Café Menorca; 20 Years of Grant Applications and State College Jobs; Early Cosmology; March 21st and Spring Begins on Benito Juarez's Birthday in Mexico. Photograph of Myself-Monastery of Monte Toro Menorca elv. 1,162 ft. Watchful-Es Castell, Menorca; Metaphysical Trees; To Ernesto Trejo in the Other World; Old News: Poem on a Birthday; Poem after Lu Yu; Philosophical Poem on the Usual Subjects; Memory; Wooden Boats; Loyalty; The Uncertainty Principle; Photograph of John Berryman on the Back of Love and Fame; Travel; 2007-2014; Poverty; We Need Philosophers for This?; I Too Am Not a Keeper of Sheep: Variation on a Theme by Pessoa; Ode to Clouds; In Memory of the Winos at the Moreton Bay Fig Tree, Santa Barbara, CA; What Einstein Means to Me. Scattering My Mother's Ashes: Santa Barabara, CATheory of Life on Other Worlds: Contemplating Retirement and Social Security Reform at Shore Line Park; Looking West from Montecito, Late Afternoon; Hemingway y yo; Lost Light; Drinking Champagne; Note to Gerald Stern Too Long for the Postcard; White Shirt; The Shape of Things; Heart Failure; Antiques Road Show; Poem on a Birthday; Metaphysical Poem Ending with That Line from Dirty Harry; Before Long; Late Iberian Manichaeism and the Crisis of Faith; Apnea; Creedence Clear Water Metaphysical Reflection; Slow Learner: In the Garden; Acknowledgments.

Star Journal is a selection of poems from Christopher Buckley's twenty previous collections, from 1980-2014.



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American poetry--20th century.
American poetry--21st century.


Electronic Books.

PS3552 / .S737 2016