Star Journal : Selected Poems / Christopher Buckley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buckley, Christopher, 1948- author.

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt poetry series

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (144 p.)

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016.

Summary:

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

Contents:

Contents; 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 & 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 & State College Jobs; Early Cosmology; March 21st & 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 & 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 & 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 & the Crisis of Faith; Apnea; Creedence Clear Water Metaphysical Reflection; Slow Learner: In the Garden; Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822982012

0822982013

OCLC:

959830349