Essays / California
152 Pages
ISBN: 1-59766-012-4
Paper: $16.95
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The West is more than just a direction to Christopher
Buckley; it stands for dreams and possibilities that
are supple, color-filled, and tinged with memories
both comic and dark. This is a book about Californian
life from the viewpoint of a spirited and insightful
observer capable of deftly weaving together tales
about Catholic school, fashion, cars, and the music
scene full of smooth-flowing personal reflections on
poetry, politics, and life’s many ironies. Buckley’s
essays show us how childhood follows us into
adulthood, how the culture of our birth sustains,
directs, and sometimes blinds us. Haunting in its
observations, Sleepwalk is also vastly entertaining and,
for anyone not familiar with Californian culture of the
late fifties and early sixties, terrifically informative.
Christopher Buckley has been awarded a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship. Click HERE to read a press release. |
| Christopher Buckley was born and reared in
California, where he now teaches at the University
of California, Riverside. His previous work includes
Cruising State: Growing Up in Southern California (1994), which Publisher’s Weekly called “delightfully
fresh,” and, as coeditor, the critical anthology A
Condition of the Spirit: The Life and Work of Larry
Levis, from Eastern Washington University Press
(2004). He is the author of thirteen books of poems,
including Sky (2004), Closer to Home (2003), and Star
Apocrypha (2001), as well as a four-time winner of the
Pushcart Prize. |
