Copyright 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986 by Christopher Buckley
Published in 1986 by Vanderbilt University Press |
| Printed by Thomson-Shore, Inc., Dexter, Michigan |
| The author and publisher make grateful acknowledgment to the editors of the following periodicals for permission to reprint those poems in this collection that first appeared in their publications: |
 | | "Quotidiana" Copyright 1983 by the Antioch Review, Inc. First appeared in The Antioch Review, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Fall, 1983). Reprinted by permission of the Editors. |
| | "Zurbaran's 'Still Life: Lemons, Oranges And A Rose' 1633" first appeared in The Hudson Review. |
| | "For A Friend Lacking Faith" originally appeared in the Fall 1985 issue of The Pennsylvania Review. |
| | "Prayer" and "Insomnia" were originally published in the Fall 1982 (Vol. 9, No. 1) issue of Black Warrior Review. |
| | "Memory" and "Heaven Knows" were originally published in Crazyhorse. |
| | "Lost and Found" originally appeared in the Spring 1983 issue (#16) of Quarterly West. |
| | "La Strada" and "Spring And The Half Life" were first published in the Fall 1984 (Vol. XIV, No. 2) issue of The Seneca Review. |
| | "Poem On A Birthday" first appeared in the Spring 1986 issue (#27/28) of Three Rivers Poetry Journal. |
| | "Intransitive," "Work & Days," and "The Roadrunner" were first published in The Missouri Review 19841985. |
| | "As It Is" was first published in the Spring 1982 (Volume 1, # 2) issue of Cumberland Poetry Review. |
| | "Dust Light, Leaves" was first published in The Georgia Review. |
| | "Smoke" and "Diffidence" were first published in the Spring 1980 issue of Antaeus. |
| | "Mesopotamia" was first published in The Reaper. |
| | "Why I'm In Favor Of A Nuclear Freeze" was first published in the Winter 1984 (Vol. 3, No. 1) issue of Telescope and copyrighted by The Galileo Press. |
| | "Sparrows" was first published in the Spring 1982 (Vol. 1, No. 2) issue of New Jersey Poetry Journal. |
| | "In The Rain Easing" originally appeared in New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly. |
| | "Munch's 'Harvesting Women'" first appeared in the Winter 1982 (Vol. XC, No. 1) issue of The Sewanee Review. |
| The author wishes to add these special acknowledgments to: |
| Bieler Press for a limited edition chapbook of "Five Small Meditations on Summer and
Birds" |
| The Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry: 1985 for "Dust Light, Leaves" Greenhouse Review Press for a limited edition broadside of "Post Card From Italy" Pushcart Prize X for "Why I'm In Favor Of A Nuclear Freeze" |
| | The National Endowment for the Arts for a grant in poetry for 1984 that enabled him to write many of these poems |
| Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data |
Buckley, Christopher, 1948
Dust light, leaves.
I. Title.
PS3552.U339D8 1986 811'.54 86-4081 |
ISBN 0-8265-1215-1 cloth
ISBN 0-8265-1219-4 paper |
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