Poetry. "At one level, these are poems of Fresno. They surprise the reader into seeing how a superb, various art has emerged from one part of California. They revel in the actual. They show the tract homes, the fruit orchards, the farms, the scalding summers. But at a more important level, HOW MUCH EARTH proves one of the oldest truths of language: that the here-and-now and the local have the best sort of kinship with the infinite. Everyone who knows that they came from somewhere will be moved, enchanted, and confirmed by this book" -Eavan Boland.
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"...How Much Earth proves that the here-and-now and the local have the best... kinship with the infinite..." -- Eavan Boland
"...[An] abundant, earthy, and surprising body of work that enriches American poetry..." -- Edward Hirsch
"...[An] abundant, earthy, and surprising body of work that enriches American poetry..." -- Edward Hirsch
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Christopher Buckley is Chair of Creative Writing at UC, Riverside. He has published nine poetry books and a memoir, and edited _On the Poetry of Philip Levine: Stranger to Nothing_. David Oliveira studied with Levine in the late sixties, in a class that included Larry Levis. He is publisher of Mille Grazie Press, and editor of "Solo", an award-winning poetry journal. M. L. Williams edited "Quarterly West", and has taught at UC, Santa Barbara.
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I lived underground during the 1950's in the wake of my father's habitual and unknown rage to weave himself through the stagnant air creating an alphabet of icicles from the eave of his wooden tongue-He struggled in web of private conversations and kept us silent with threats and abandonment-orphaned to invisibility where dreams survive on the urgency of boredom. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
California State University, Philip Levine, Fresno State, Peter Everwine, San Diego, Larry Levis, New York, West Fresno, Ernesto Trejo, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Joaquin Valley, University of California, Chuck Hanzlicek, Heyday Books, Phil Levine, Sherley Anne Williams, Charles Hanzlicek, Dragon River, Fresno City College, Fresno High, Santa Fe Depot, The Geography of Home, University of Iowa, Antioch Review New!
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I lived underground during the 1950's in the wake of my father's habitual and unknown rage to weave himself through the stagnant air creating an alphabet of icicles from the eave of his wooden tongue-He struggled in web of private conversations and kept us silent with threats and abandonment-orphaned to invisibility where dreams survive on the urgency of boredom. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
California State University, Philip Levine, Fresno State, Peter Everwine, San Diego, Larry Levis, New York, West Fresno, Ernesto Trejo, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Joaquin Valley, University of California, Chuck Hanzlicek, Heyday Books, Phil Levine, Sherley Anne Williams, Charles Hanzlicek, Dragon River, Fresno City College, Fresno High, Santa Fe Depot, The Geography of Home, University of Iowa, Antioch Review New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Middle Ear (California Poetry) by Forrest Hamer in Back Matter
- The Measured Word: On Poetry and Science by Kurt Brown in Back Matter
- Doubleness (The California Poetry Series) by Richard Silberg in Back Matter
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