Flight dreams : a life in the midwestern landscape /
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Author / Creator: | Knopp, Lisa, 1956- |
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Imprint: | Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©1998. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 286 pages). |
Language: | English |
Series: | Singular lives Singular lives. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11108654 |
ISBN: | 1587291282 9781587291289 0877456453 9780877456452 |
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Notes: | Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record. |
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 Dreams stands alone as a distinct narrative, yet each is linked by profoundly personal descriptions of dreams, the natural world, defining experiences, and chance encounters with people that later prove to be fateful. Part Eastern meditation, part dream sequence, part historical reconstruction, Flight Dreams testifies to a deep understanding of how the natural world--its visible and invisible elements--guides our destinies. |
Other form: | Print version: Knopp, Lisa, 1956- Flight dreams. Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, ©1998 0877456453 |
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