{"title":"Robert Buckeye","description":"Robert Buckeye, \/b\u0026gt; is author of four previous works of fiction about Puerto Rico (Pressure Drop), the Kent State shootings (Still Lives), Edvard Munch (The Munch Case) and Bratislava (Fade) 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.","products":[{"product_id":"the-wind-unrelenting-paperback","title":"The Wind Unrelenting - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBratislava, once Pozsony, before that Pressburg, kept trying to be a free city, but each time the Czechoslovak Legion came in, started killing people, threw their weight around enough to slap on the kibosh. The wind unrelenting all year long is believed by some to be the vestige of this free city that never came to be, as the breath of ghosts may sometimes be felt in haunted locations-a great history of unrequited political desire.-Thomas Pynchon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67755115020511,"sku":"9781969900143","price":19.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/xsYmqpxw_t9781969900143.webp?v=1790657539"},{"product_id":"not-her-nor-him-paperback","title":"Not Her Nor Him - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eKenneth Warren\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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., br\u0026gt; \u003cb\u003eJay Parini\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e It is the novel \u003ci\u003eMunch\u003c\/i\u003e would have written about himself were he to have written instead of painted.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMatthew McAlpin\u003c\/b\u003e, on \u003ci\u003eEdvard Munch\u003c\/i\u003e in Review of Contemporary Fiction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAndy Stewart\u003c\/b\u003e, on \u003ci\u003eLeft\u003c\/i\u003e in Review of Contemporary Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67838407114975,"sku":"9781944682224","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/sn869CeqTp9781944682224.webp?v=1790783512"},{"product_id":"the-grocery-store-on-lazaretska-street-paperback","title":"The Grocery Store On Lazaretska Street - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAt 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67914194092255,"sku":"9781963908091","price":19.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/cols93yN-j9781963908091.webp?v=1790999493"},{"product_id":"re-quin-paperback","title":"Re: Quin - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn unabashedly personal and partisan critical biography of the great British experimentalist of the 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67945570894047,"sku":"9781564788870","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/O72eLAPIok9781564788870.webp?v=1791499937"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/robert-buckeye.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}