Chaos Theory

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'3.3 billion years ago we caught a break . . .' So states the first line of Christopher Buckley's new poetry collection Chaos Theory, setting the tone of casual erudition, an atomic fusion of the personal and the cosmic. The book's theme is a perennial one: Chaos Theory is really about finding the underlying order in apparently random data. True to his word, Buckley gives us "Shimmy Shimmy Ko-Ko Bop" by Little Anthony & The Imperials: - '… particles; the cathedral of the atom, and Gunsmoke, The Whistler, Mr. & Mrs. North- / zooming past / the cosmic street lamps, ' bids us make the connections along with him. It's a startling, deliriously pleasurable enterprise, poem by poem. As we reach the end of our cosmic journey through Chaos Theory, we feel like one of the imagined aliens huddled at last around Voyager's Golden Records on some distant planet, understanding dawning in her eye or ear, as an x-ray of a human hand and snowflakes over Sequoia appear on a hologram, followed by a recording of the greeting "May all be well" in Ancient Sumerian and the brainwaves of Ann Druyan considering human violence and poverty and falling in love.

CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY lives in Santa Barbara, CA. STAR JOURNAL: SELECTED POEMS was published by Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. Recent books are The Pre-Eternity of the World, Stephen F. Austin State Univ. Press, and The Consolations of Science & Philosophy, Lynx House Press.Among several critical collections and anthologies he has edited are A Condition of the Spirit: The Life and Work of Larry Levis, 2004, with Alexander Long; Homage to Vallejo, Greenhouse Review Press, 2006; and Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California, with Gary Young, 2008.With David Oliveira and M.L. Williams he is editor of How Much Earth: The Fresno Poets, 2001, and he has edited On the Poetry of Philip Levine: Stranger to Nothing, Univ. of Michigan Press 1991, and FIRST LIGHT: A Festschrift for Philip Levine on his 85th Birthday, 2013. The Backwaters Press published Aspects of Robinson: Homage to Weldon Kees, edited with Christopher Howell in 2011, and in 2012, again with Gary Young, Lynx House Press published, One for the Money: the Sentence as a Poetic Form. With Jon Veinberg, he edited Messenger to the Stars: A Luis Omar Salinas New Selected Poems & Reader, in 2014.He has recently edited The Long Embrace: Contemporary Poets on the Long Poems of Philip Levine, Lynx House Press, 2020; and NAMING THE LOST: THE FRESNO POETS-Interviews & Essays, Stephen F. Austin State Univ. Press, 2021.Buckley's work was selected for Best American Poetry 2021. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry for 2007-2008, and has received the William Stafford Poetry Prize from Rosebud in 2012, and the James Dickey Prize for 2008 from Five Points Magazine. He was awarded a Fulbright Award in Creative Writing to the former Yugoslavia, four Pushcart Prizes, two awards from the Poetry Society of America, and is the recipient of NEA grants in poetry for 2001 and 1984. Other awards include the City Works National Writers Award for 2006 from San Diego Community College, and the Kenneth O. Hansen and Vi Gale poetry awards from HUBBUB magazine. He was the winner of the Campbell Corner Poetry Contest form Sarah Lawrence as well as annual poetry awards from Tieferet magazine, Nimrod, Alligator Juniper, and Zone 3.Over the last 35 years his poetry has appeared in APR, POETRY, FIELD, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, The New Yorker, The Nation, The Hudson Review, The Gettysburg Review, Plume, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, Five Points, New Letters, The Harvard Review, & The American Journal of Poetry.