John F. Buckley’s Sky Sandwiches is a Veritable Feast of Surrealism

Ann Arbor, MI, July 11, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Anaphora Literary Press is thrilled to promote 2012 Pushcart Prize nominee Sky Sandwiches. The forty-eight poems in this collection echo John F. Buckley’s wry, paradoxical perspective, a point of view evoking both the transcendent and the quotidian, fusing a sky associated with religion and higher yearnings with the sandwiches of simpler sustenance. In his poems as in this world, people fly like crooked arrows, seeking targets both above and below. The collection describes how our desires lead us to absurd hopes and stale resignations, humble dreams and sublime despairs. It recounts the ways we may seek both eternal salvation and a half-decent Italian sub. Parts are tender. Parts are funny. Parts will get stuck in your braces.

($15, Poetry, ISBN#: 978-1-937536-32-9, LCCN: 2012945999, 98pp, 6X9”)

“Surrealism is one of the most ruthlessly understood concepts in art, a veritable coat rack upon which artists have hung every excuse for provocation. In Sky Sandwiches by John F. Buckley, the poet reminds us that surrealism is not an end but a means. His incredible imagery, wordplay, and humor all combine to summon a world at once real, urgent, and familiar.”
-Brendan Constantine, author of Calamity Joe

“In his first full-length book of poetry, Sky Sandwiches, John F. Buckley serves up an engaging concoction of humility, self-deprecating humor, classical references, the sensuous pleasure of well-placed words, and a keen observation of humanity's tenderness and limitations.”
-Marta Chausée, author of Resort to Murder

“John F. Buckley has mastered the art of absurdity. Trilling a surrealist high note while striking the bar chords of narrative, Sky Sandwiches proves that eccentric imagery and galumphing streams of diction enhance emotion and create empirical phrases of melodic motion.”
-Cory De Silva, editor for Bank-Heavy Press

“The poems in Sky Sandwiches travel the landscape from menace to whimsy, stopping along the way to tickle the imagination at every turn.”
-Tamara Madison, author of Wild Domestic

John F. Buckley has divided his life between California, where he spent most of his adulthood, and Michigan, where he was born and raised, where he now attends the MFA program in poetry at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Over two hundred of his poems have appeared in journals and anthologies, including Agenda, CounterPunch, Harpur Palate, The Midwest Quarterly, Poetry New Zealand, South Carolina Review, Southern Humanities Review and Yemassee. Sky Sandwiches is his first solo full-length poetry collection.

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