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At the center of Buckeye’s clear, direct prose is moral memory. All his life, from Cleveland to Bratislava, he has been measuring the material world from the body out.  It is this rare combination of moral memory and materialism that makes Buckeye’s writing so compelling.

      Kenneth Warren

 

Robert Buckeye has a visceral sense of place—and the outward spaces he inhabits in his work are matched by a pressure from within, as Wallace Stevens might say; a pressure that seems to issue from the body, and that makes the connection between body and mind visceral, combative, compelling.

     Jay Parini

 

It is the novel Munch would have written about himself were he to have written instead of painted.

      Matthew McAlpin,

on Edvard Munch in Review of Contemporary Fiction

 

Buckeye captures a rare emotional authenticity and realism attained by few authors .... the piece is a testament to Robert Buckeye’s ability to craft a truly honest and powerfully real work of fiction.”

      Andy Stewart,

on Left in Review of Contemporary Fiction