She became famous, finally, to herself, Kathleen Flenniken writes. This is the kind of fame at the heart of most lives and at the center of Flenniken s first collection, the winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Here a little voice sings / from the back of the auditorium / of my throat. Aren t all of us / waiting to be discovered? The poet s answer is sometimes grave, sometimes comic, but always tuned to the incidental music of daily life."
She became famous, finally, to herself, Kathleen Flenniken writes. This is the kind of fame at the heart of most lives and at the center of Flenniken ...
The poems in Plume are nuclear-age songs of innocence and experience set in the "empty" desert West. Award-winning poet Kathleen Flenniken grew up in Richland, Washington, at the height of the Cold War, next door to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, where "every father I knew disappeared to fuel the bomb," and worked at Hanford herself as a civil engineer and hydrologist. By the late 1980s, declassified documents revealed decades of environmental contamination and deception at the plutonium production facility, contradicting a lifetime of official assurances to workers and their...
The poems in Plume are nuclear-age songs of innocence and experience set in the "empty" desert West. Award-winning poet Kathleen Flenniken g...
The poems in Plume are nuclear-age songs of innocence and experience set in the "empty" desert West. Award-winning poet Kathleen Flenniken grew up in Richland, Washington, at the height of the Cold War, next door to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, where "every father I knew disappeared to fuel the bomb," and worked at Hanford herself as a civil engineer and hydrologist. By the late 1980s, declassified documents revealed decades of environmental contamination and deception at the plutonium production facility, contradicting a lifetime of official assurances to workers and their...
The poems in Plume are nuclear-age songs of innocence and experience set in the "empty" desert West. Award-winning poet Kathleen Flenniken g...
