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Christopher Buckley

Christopher Buckley has written twenty books of poetry and many edited poetry anthologies and critical collections including Stranger To Nothing: On the Poetry of Philip Levine from University of Michigan Press.

Poetry

Summer/ Autumn 1997

Vacuum Genesis

By Christopher Buckley

If you don’t know how you got somewhere you don’t know where you are. JAMES BURKE "A blue-million of 'em" my aunt always says—we were looking up above Lexington for […]

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Vacuum Genesis

By Christopher Buckley

From The Kenyon Review, New Series, Summer/Fall 1997, Vol. XIX, No. 3-4 If you don’t know how you got somewhere you don’t know where you are. –James Burke A blue-million […]