Star journal: selected poems 9780822982012, 0822982013
Star Journal is a selection of poems from Christopher Buckley's twenty previous collections, from 1980-2014.;1979-1
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Table of 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.
