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The Consolations of Science and Philosophy
Poems
Christopher Buckley’s latest book continues his exploration of how, despite the intellectual tools of science and philosophy, we are still somehow left with questions about identity, memory, love, loss, value, self, and God—not to mention...
ISBN: 9780899241838
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The Long Embrace
21 Contemporary Poets on the Long Poems of Philip Levine
Philip Levine is one of the foremost poets of the last fifty years, but moreover he is a master and unparalleled practitioner of the long poem in our time. No recent poet has written as...
ISBN: 9780899241715
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Agnostic
Poems
Specters as various as Vallejo, Szymborska, Neruda, Fidel Castro, and Groucho Marx guide and support the elegies in Christopher Buckley’s new collection. A god that may or may not be there as well as politics,...
ISBN: 9780899241685
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Holy Days of Obligation
Essays
Holy Days of Obligation, the third part of Christopher Buckley's memoir trilogy is a book about place and vocation. Set primarily in Santa Barbara and Montecito in the 1950’s and 60’s, among the woods and...
ISBN: 9780899241340
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The Sentence as a Poetic Form, A Poetry Workshop Handbook and Anthology
The one-sentence poem has proven to be a compelling and persistent poetic device through the ages. This anthology offers strategies and prompts for using the single sentence as a principle of poetic structure, a rhetorical...
ISBN: 9780899241265
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