Flight dreams : a life in the midwestern landscape / Lisa Knopp ; foreword by Albert E. Stone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knopp, Lisa, 1956- author.

Contributor:

Stone, Albert E., writer of foreword.

Series:

Singular Lives

Singular Lives Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle West--Biography.

Middle West.

Knopp, Lisa, 1956-.

Knopp, Lisa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, [1998]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"When I was eleven the world was filled with birds,"writes Lisa Knopp of her girlhood in Burlington, Iowa. Picking up where she left off in her first book, Field of Vision, Knopp knits together sections of her life story through a pattern of images drawn from nature. The most prevalent of these unifying themes are metaphors of flight-birds, wind, moving upward and outward and across the midwestern landscape from Nebraska and Iowa to southern Illinois.Reminiscent of Thoreau's introspective nature writing and Dillard's taut, personal prose, each chapter in Flight D

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Local Traffic; Outside; Not-Catholic; Last Rites; August Afternoon; Hearsay; Flight Dreams; Summer Reading; Sheet Music; Gainful Employment; The Imagined Gaze; Mistaken Identity; The Sidetrack; My TM Story; Unfinished; Flash and Wonder; Real Work; Writing Nature; The First Day; Walking with Meredith; The Edge of Perception; Spirit Walk; Omen-catcher

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781587291289

1587291282

OCLC:

44963331