"Travel"
from Christopher Buckley's
And the Sea

Christopher Buckley:

Christopher Buckley has published fourteen books of poetry, most recently, Sky (The Sheep Meadow Press, 2004) and Star Apocrypha (Northwestern University Press, 2001). For his poetry he has received four Pushcart Prizes, two awards from the Poetry Society of America, a Fulbright Award in Creative Writing to the former Yugoslavia, and is the recipient of NEA grants in poetry for 2001 and 1984.

Buckley is the editor of a number of anthologies of contemporary poetry as well as critical books about contemporary poets and poetry. Most recently he has edited Homage to Vallejo (Greenhouse Review Press, 2006), and A Condition of the Spirit: The Life and Work of Larry Levis (Eastern Washington University Press, 2004, with Alexander Long). With Gary Young, Buckley is the editor of The Geography of Home: California's Poetry of Place (Hey Day Books, 1999), and with David Oliveira and M. L. Williams he is editor of How Much Earth: The Fresno Poets (Round House Press, 2001). For the University of Michigan Press' Under Discussion Series, he has edited The Poetry of Philip Levine: Stranger to Nothing, 1991.

In 2001, Buckley published Appreciations: Selected Reviews, Views, and Interviews 1975-2000, and his first book of creative nonfiction, Cruising State: Growing Up in California was published in 1994 by the University of Nevada Press. A new book of nonfiction, Sleep Walk, will be published by the Eastern Washington University Press in 2006.

About And the Sea:

Praise for Christopher Buckley:

"Buckley accepts our glorious "inconsequences" with pride and dignity. He writes about a world that is good enough in itself and doesn't need to call everything into question. There is deep nostalgia here, but also wisdom and common-sense; and beautiful writing. I welcome him at his maturest, poet of stardust."
— Gerald Stern

"I don't think I know of another poet who has such vertical range and depth; Buckley manages to have one foot in the physical muck and tenderness of the world and the other foot planted among the stars and galaxies of the universe. What I like also is his formal restlessness, the different ways he uses to reach his subjects."
— Peter Everwine

"Over the last quarter century he has crafted a poetry that is scrupulous in its craft, precise in the focus of its language, far-reaching in its ambitions... the consistently high quality of his work, his prodigious output and the ceaseless ambition of his poems has made Christopher Buckley a poet who deserves the attention of any reader interested in the poetry of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century."
— Al Maginnes

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