Star journal: selected poems

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