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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Singular livesPublication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, �1998.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 286 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1587291282
  • 9781587291289
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Flight dreams.DDC classification:
  • 977/.033/092 B 21
LOC classification:
  • CT275.K659 A3 1998eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Action note:
  • digitized 2010 committed to preserve
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.
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"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.

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.

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