Star Journal is a selection of poems from Christopher Buckley's twenty previous collections, from 1980-2014.

Past praise from Philip Levine:
“The poems are modest, straight forward, intensely lyrical and totally accessible. . . .  This is a humble poetry of great truths and profound emotions that never overstates its concerns for the events both in and above the world.  It rewards countless readings and never betrays itself.”
—Ploughshares

Christopher Buckley is professor emeritus of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside. He has published 20 books of poetry and several chapbooks and limited editions. Buckley is the author of the memoirs Cruising State, Sleep Walk, and Holy Days of Obligation. He is the editor of six anthologies of contemporary poetry as well as critical books on Philip Levine, Larry Levis, and Luis Omar Salinas. Buckley is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, two National Endowment for the Arts Grants, a Fulbright Award, four Pushcart prizes, and two awards from the Poetry Society of America among other awards.