| Desiring Flight: Findlen Contributor(s): Balk, Christianne (Author) |
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ISBN: 1557530629 ISBN-13: 9781557530622 Publisher: Purdue University Press OUR PRICE: $8.06 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 1995 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: By drawing our attention to what we may, at first, be tempted to overlook, the author surprises us by relating it to something else which is not obviously related, but which, by virtue of her keen perceptions, shows itself to be attached, sometimes emotionally, sometimes morally, often mysteriously. Christianne Balk writes about land, landscape, wind, rock, bird, plant and animal, river and ocean as if to record as well as to protect. At the center of her work is a profound reverence for the scaffolding of the earth itself, a willingness to embrace the continual cycles of disintegration and growth we are all part of. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811 |
| LCCN: 94-38209 |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 5.52" W x 8.49" (0.36 lbs) 93 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Christianne Balk's second book of poems, Desiring Flight, is a journey into the transforming power of relationship. Her subject matter - whether it is family, the Alaskan wilderness, the life of the naturalist John Muir, or the New England landscape where her daughter was born - is very often concerned with form and grace in nature. Form in her poetry is a serious and graceful matter, as well. By drawing our attention to what we may, at first, be tempted to overlook, the author surprises us by relating it to something else which is not obviously related, but which, by virtue of her keen perceptions, shows itself to be attached, sometimes emotionally, sometimes morally, often mysteriously. Christianne Balk writes about land, landscape, wind, rock, bird, plant and animal, river and ocean as if to record as well as to protect. At the center of her work is a profound reverence for the scaffolding of the earth itself, a willingness to embrace the continual cycles of disintegration and growth we are all part of. |
Contributor Bio(s): Balk, Christianne: - Christianne Balk is the author of two books of poetry; Bindweed, which won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets and Desiring Flight (Purdue University Press, 1995). She has also been the recipient of the Andres Berger Poetry Award from Northwest Writers, and the Whitcombe Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in many magazines, including the Atlantic, Pequod, Harper's and the New Yorker. She lives with her family in Seattle, Washington. |