1 option
Star journal : selected poems / Christopher Buckley.
Van Pelt Library PS3552.U339 A6 2016
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buckley, Christopher, 1948- author.
- Series:
- Pitt poetry series
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- American poetry--21st century.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 133 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- 1979-1997
- Why I'm in Favor of a Nuclear Freeze 3
- Dust Light, Leaves 5
- Halky's Comet from the West Coast, March 22,1986 6
- Evening in Santorim 7
- Star Journal 9
- Prima Facie 13
- Midlife 15
- Father, 1952 18
- There & Then 19
- The Presocratic, Surfing, Breathing Cosmology Blues... 21
- Camino Cielo 24
- Sycamore Canyon Nocturne 26
- 1998-2006
- Sleep Walk 31
- Opera 33
- Vacuum Genesis 35
- Astronomy Lesson: At Café Menorca 37
- 20 Years of Grant Applications & State College Jobs 38
- Early Cosmology 40
- March 21st & Spring Begins on Benito Juarez's Birthday in Mexico 42
- Photograph of Myself-Monastery of Monte Toro Menorca elv. 1,162 ft. 44
- Watchful-Es Castell, Menorca 46
- Metaphysical Trees 49
- To Ernesto Trejo in the Other World 54
- Old News: Poem on a Birthday 56
- Poem after Lu Yu 59
- Philosophical Poem on the Usual Subjects 60
- Memory 63
- Wooden Boats 64
- Loyalty 66
- The Uncertainty Principle 68
- Photograph of John Berryman on the Back of Love & Fame 71
- Travel 73
- 2007-2014
- Poverty 77
- We Need Philosophers for This? 79
- I Too Am Not a Keeper of Sheep: Variation on a Theme by Pessoa 81
- Ode to Clouds 84
- In Memory of the Winos at the Morecon Bay Fig Tree, Santa Barbara, CA 86
- What Einstein Means to Me 88
- Scattering My Mother's Ashes: Santa Barabara, CA 90
- Theory of Life on Other Worlds: Contemplating Retirement & Social Security Reform at Shore Line Park 91
- Looking West from Montecito, Late Afternoon 93
- Hemingway y yo 94
- Lost Light 97
- Drinking Champagne 99
- Note to Gerald Stern Too Long for the Postcard 100
- White Shirt 103
- The Shape of Things 106
- Heart Failure 109
- Antiques Road Show 111
- Poem on a Birthday 112
- Metaphysical Poem Ending with That Line from Dirty Harry 114
- Before Long 116
- Late Iberian Manichaeism & the Crisis of Faith 120
- Apnea 123
- Creedence Clear Water Metaphysical Reflection 125
- Slow Learner: In the Garden 128.
- ISBN:
- 0822964309
- 9780822964308
- OCLC:
- 948340015
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.