The Holding Hours Christianne Balk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Balk, Christianne.

Series:

Pacific Northwest poetry series.

Pacific Northwest poetry series ; 16

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (89 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Emotion, raw and unadorned, is woven through the poems of Christianne Balk's The Holding Hours. Part I explores the subtle and surprising transformations that come from caring for her young, neurologically injured daughter. Insights unfold in metaphor and persona below the surface of an exquisitely observed life.Gazing through the lens of other lives challenged by disability and illness, including those of John Muir and the 16th-century Saint Germaine Cousin, these poems place personal experience in the context of pastoral poetic traditions, disability studies, and the history of political disruption. Balk anchors these meditations within the landscape of the Pacific Northwest. She examines her (and our) relationship with nature-the moon snail, the azalea, snow geese, the dog rose-sing the precise and unsentimental language of a trained naturalist. The sounds and images evoked reveal a stunning artistry-a mediation between self and the world and a celebration of the beauty and fragility of life and the anticipation of rebirth.

Contents:

Cover; THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST POETRY SERIES; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; I; Tangle; Sol Duc River; October Carriage; Mist; Nova; The Path; The Hours of Germaine Cousin; 1. Matins-Hunger Is the Light; 2. Lauds; 3. Prime-The Turnspit's Labor; 4. Terce-Brass Bells; 5. Sext-The Gift of Hunger; 6. Nones-Oak Apples; 7. Vespers-Like Water; 8. Complin; John Muir's Wild Silk Moth; II; On the Shore; III; Gold Creek Road; Goldfinches; Gaze; Dog Rose; Early Azalea; Snow Geese; Birds, Converging; Barrier Island; And Yet; John Muir's Fever; Gold Creek Valley; So Long, Moon Snail; Surface Tension

IV The Holding Hours; Bog Lanterns; John Muir in the Sequoias; Iris; Watershed; The Tail of the Q; Mother, Daughter; Daughter, Silk; Ruby-Crowned Kinglet; Killdeer; May; The Birch; Greenlake / The Way; Fly-Fishing; Bathsheba; Acknowledgments; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295806211

0295806214

OCLC:

919495819