# Chaos Theory - Paperback

by **Christopher Buckley** (Author)

'3.3 billion years ago we caught a break . . .' So states the first line of Christopher Buckley's new poetry collection _Chaos Theory_, setting the tone of casual erudition, an atomic fusion of the personal and the cosmic. The book's theme is a perennial one: _Chaos Theory_ is really about finding the underlying order in apparently random data. True to his word, Buckley gives us "Shimmy Shimmy Ko-Ko Bop" by Little Anthony & The Imperials: - '... particles; the cathedral of the atom, and Gunsmoke, The Whistler, Mr. & Mrs. North-- / zooming past / the cosmic street lamps, ' bids us make the connections along with him. It's a startling, deliriously pleasurable enterprise, poem by poem. As we reach the end of our cosmic journey through _Chaos Theory_, we feel like one of the imagined aliens huddled at last around Voyager's Golden Records on some distant planet, understanding dawning in her eye or ear, as an x-ray of a human hand and snowflakes over Sequoia appear on a hologram, followed by a recording of the greeting "May all be well" in Ancient Sumerian and the brainwaves of Ann Druyan considering human violence and poverty and falling in love.

**Number of Pages:** 122

**Dimensions:** 0.29 x 9 x 6 IN

**Publication Date:** January 02, 2018

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- **Price:** 37.53 USD
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- **Type:** Books
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