Star Apocrypha by Christopher Buckley

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Star Apocrypha, poems by Christopher Buckley: "Buckley has been the master of nostalgia in his previous eight collections, and once again he has distinguished himself with a sorrow for the Santa Barbara of his childhood, for music, for his late friend and inspiration Larry Levis, and-this is scary-for the middle age moving ever so quickly toward old. Here is humor, but also a quietness that stills the heart." (TriQuarterly)