Poetry. Winner of the 2017 Vern Rutsala Book Prize. "THE FAR REPUBLICS is expansive--an exuberant sensibility, but rueful. The public poems relish detail--all the brand names of the time are woven into a private living-as-it- goes account that also can't forget what could have been. You can't help but being swept into the flood."--Dennis Schmitz "Christopher Buckley's gift for wide-ranging thinking meshes so gracefully with lovingly tender details; he feels like a companion voice for all time--a Hikmet, a Neruda, yes."--Naomi Shihab Nye Christopher Buckley's past publications have won numerous awards, and his poems have been included in many anthologies and journals. Star Journal: Selected Poems was published in 2016 as part of the Pitt Poetry Series.