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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

 

Robert Buckeye’s work—whether he deals with intimate or far-flung geography—has an edge to it, an incisive lyric toughness that’s very much his own. The voice has pace, rhythm, force.

    Nicholas Delbanco

 

Again, summations of the time the nation went off a cliff. And its replay in micro and macro-cosms. One’s personal story mixed in with the impossibility of story, per se, but the way in which we look at the face of fate as well as the shadow cast by what that fate might be or have been.

    t thilleman

 

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

 

You may have to keep reminding yourself it’s not poetry … because it is so surely lyrical, so rich with imagery.

    Middlebury Magazine

Robert Buckeye is author of five works of fiction about Puerto Rico (Pressure Drop), the Kent State shootings (Still Lives), Edvard Munch (The Munch Case), Bratislava (Fade), and the novel Not Her Nor Him, as well as a study of the English novelist, Ann Quin (Re: Quin). In 2015, Spuyten Duyvil published a collection of his criticism, Living In. He divides his time between Vermont and Bratislava.