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Buckeye has known the unreality of reality for a very long time, the incoming fire and the deaths that did not matter no matter that they mattered.

   Ken Snyder

 

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

 

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