Christopher Buckley (born 1948) is an American poet.
Buckley was born in Arcata, California. He graduated from St. Mary's College with a BA, San Diego State University with a MA, and University of California, Irvine with an MFA. He taught at Fresno State University, University of California, Santa Barbara, Murray State University, West Chester University, and University of California, Riverside.
He married painter Nadya Brown.
Awards
Works
- Blossoms & Bones: On the Life and Work of Georgia O'Keeffe, Vanderbilt University Press, 1988,
- Blue autumn: poems, Copper Beech Press, 1990,
- Dark matter: poems, Copper Beech Press, 1993,
- Star Apocrypha, Northwestern University Press, 2001,
- Greatest hits, 1978-2000, Pudding House Publications, 2001,
- And the sea: poems, Sheep Meadow Press, 2006,
- Sleepwalk: California dreamin' and a last dance with the '60s, Eastern Washington University Press, 2006
- Modern history: prose poems 1987-2007, Tupelo Press, 2008,
- Rolling the Bones: poems, UT Press, 2009,
- One for the Money: The Sentence as a Poetic Form, A Poetry Workshop Handbook and Anthology., Lynx House Press, 2012,
Memoir
Editor
- Naming the Lost: The Fresno Poets (Interviews & Essays. edited by Christopher Buckley (Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2021)
- Condition of the Spirit - The Life and Work of Larry Levis. edited by Christopher Buckley & Alexander Long (Eastern Washington University, 2004)
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