Synopses & Reviews
Christopher Buckley moves within the same poem from the most commonplace, ordinary, drab, inarticulate experiences of life and language to the most lyrical, beautiful, and sublime. Buckley's art changes mud and dirty shoes into sky. A master of his art, he has much to teach us about seeing, thinking, and feeling. As Gerald Stern has put it, Buckley's "subject is radiance. So he hates fascism and believes we are more than dust. So I read him."
Review
"Sky is Christopher Buckley's thirteenth collection of poetry and possibly his best...Here we have a wide-ranging poet...Buckley's craft has never been better, especially in the astonishingly fresh images and tropes we encounter on every page....Sky is an earnest and honest book, full of poetic discovery in an unpretentious and authentic voice." World Literature Today
About the Author
Christopher Buckley teaches in the MFA program at the University of California Riverside. He has published thirteen books of poetry.
Table of Contents
A Little Poem About God
All This Time
In Frsno, I'm Living In My Dreams
Voyage to the Great Attractor
The Ernesto Trejo in the Other World
Mediterrenean Clouds
Unhappiness
Eternity
Old News Stars Above Fresno
Or Not
Dispatch from Santa Barbara, 2001
The Resurrection, Cookham
Cloud Study
On a Painting by Wen Jai
A Pair of Shoes
Poem Freely Accepted from the Polish
Poem after Lu Yu
Desert Song, at 52
Philosophical Poem on the Usual Subjects
Five Days Rain
Paris Dispatch
Imperfect Contrition
Sky
Cloud Journal
Physics & the Secret of Nothing