Christopher Buckley is professor and chair of the Creative Writing Department at the University of California, Riverside. His sixteen books of poetry include Modern History: Prose Poems 1987–2007 (Tupelo Press, 2008); . . . and the Sea (Sheep Meadow Press, 2006); Sky (Sheep Meadow Press, 2004); Star Apocrypha (TriQuarterly Books, 2001); Fall From Grace (Bk Mk Press, 1998); Camino Cielo (Orchises Press, 1997); A Short History of Light, the winning entry in the Painted Hills Review’s first annual book contest (Painted Hills Press, 1994); Dark Matter (Copper Beech Press of Brown University, 1993); Blue Autumn (Copper Beech Press of Brown University, 1990); Blossoms and Bones: On the Life and Work of Georgia O’Keefe (Vanderbilt University Press, 1988); Dust Light, Leaves (Vanderbilt University Press, 1986); Last Rites (Ithaca House, 1980); and Other Lives (Ithaca House, 1980).

Buckley has edited A Condition of the Spirit: The Life and Work of Larry Levis (Eastern Washington University Press, 2004) with Alexander Long, What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry (Peregrin Smith Books, 1995) with Chrisophter Merrill, and On the Poetry of Philip Levine: Stranger to Nothing (University of Michigan Press, 1991).  

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