The Geography of Home: California's Poetry of Place

by Christopher Buckley (Editor & Compiler)

Ripe with possibilities, with a rich diversity of landscapes and people, California has nurtured poets born and raised on its soil, and has drawn to it established writers from other places. This is an ample and exciting collection in which California's emotional, cultural, and physical landscapes are examined, questioned, and ultimately celebrated.

Genres: Poetry

444 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1999

About the author

Christopher Buckley is a poet. For 2007-2008 he was a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry at the University of California Riverside.

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Reviews

[Shannon · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are NO reviews on this book? Wow. I read a lot of this in an Introduction to Lit class my freshman year of college. One of the authors in the book was the teacher of said class. He said we could critique any poem in the book, EXCEPT his own, because he admitted he would not be able to be objective about his own work. I thought that was honest. Annnyway, yeah. It's a good collection of poetry.

[Ed · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wonderful collection of first rate poetry inspired by California.