FREE VERSE EDITIONS, edited by Jon Thompson "The 'flickering body' in Christopher Sindt's THE BODIES is luminous and personal, and serves as a guide. We are taken passionately into a world of disappearing wetlands, herons, oaks, apple grasses, dunes, and sea figs, beyond clarity and certainty. These poems are meditative histories of the natural world. They leap into the wild of earth, of feeling, and of language." -JANE MILLER "Impossible perhaps-he thinks-to read the world, to sing it, to offer up its names. Yet, as Christopher Sindt reminds us in this probing and often startling collection,...
FREE VERSE EDITIONS, edited by Jon Thompson "The 'flickering body' in Christopher Sindt's THE BODIES is luminous and personal, and serves as a guide. ...
System and Population is a lyric account of the proposed damming of the American River in Northern California. It explores the intersections of personal and cultural experience, scientific study, and politics of dams and rivers; meditates on human experiences, such as parenthood and loss; and studies the effects of environmental damage and disaster.
About the Author
Christopher Sindt is a professor of English at Saint Mary's College of California, where he teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and serves as...
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System and Population is a lyric account of the proposed damming of the American River in Northern Cali...
