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Star Apocrypha / Christopher Buckley.
Van Pelt Library PS3552.U339 S73 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buckley, Christopher, 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy--Poetry.
- Philosophy.
- Metaphysics--Poetry.
- Metaphysics.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- iii, 74 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Ill. : TriQuarterly Books, 2001.
- Summary:
- Christopher Buckley's new collection is a brilliant expression of philosophy and feeling. Throughout Star Apocrypha, Buckley relentlessly questions the metaphysics of life in the heavens and on earth. These poems bear the beauty and weight of big questions and dazzling language. Yet there is also a real life woven into the fabric of the book, a deep melancholy over the loss of a father and the indifference of the cosmos to our inquiries. In Star Apocrypha, Buckley exposes both physical and inner landscapes with wit and high-pitched intelligence.
- Contents:
- Keeping My Own Company 3
- Apologia: The Bible-History Student Returns Home 6
- Eclipse 9
- Early Cosmology 11
- Road to Damascus 14
- Prayer to Escape the East 16
- Winter Residue 19
- Zeno Said 25
- Last Days of the Hot-Rod Kids 30
- Phlogiston Theory & the Clouds of the Old World 33
- After a Reading, Charles Bukowski Returns & Gives Me the Lowdown on Fame, Mutability, the Afterlife, et al... 36
- Some Last Existential Thoughts at Surf Beach 39
- March 21, & Spring Begins on Benito Juarez's Birthday in Mexico 43
- Star Apocrypha 46
- Photograph of Myself 51
- Observation: Middle Age 54
- Watchful 55
- Lost Sky 59
- Allegro Non Troppo 63
- Metaphysical Trees 65
- Via Dolorosa 71.
- ISBN:
- 0810151138
- 0810151286
- OCLC:
- 45708092
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