Cloud Memoir: Selected Longer Poems 1987-2017
About this book
Cloud Memoir is a collection of Christopher Buckley’s longer poems, his most wide-ranging and serious work built with a symphonic structure—theme, variation, recapitulation trilled with speculative formations, its this/but that, its faith-and-doubt. Rarely did/do the grey cells and the music of experience organize themselves into quick dramatic or pithy movements. These beautifully structured longer poems provide both the metaphysical and putative room to move.Tomorrow, no doubt, more of us will comefrom the Midwest for favorable exchange rates,the ruins and the partial restorationsof romance; we’ll believe without questionand so run no risk from the church.But there’s a new inquisition here,sectarian as the old—it takes us awayfrom lunch under bright umbrellasand unsettles conversation over drinksalong the Via Veneto; this red brigadewould kneecap half the globe to gettheir way. So maybe it’s as you say—after all there is no real evidence