Christianne Balk

Christianne Balk

Christianne Balk (born 1953) is an American poet.

Contents

Life

She graduated in biology with honors from Grinnell College.

Her work has appeared in Pequod,[1] Crazy Horse,[2] Sulfur,[3] The Centennial review[4] The Missouri Review,[5] Sonora Review,[6] Prairie Schooner[7] Harper's,[8] and The New Yorker.[9]

She taught at the University of British Columbia.

She lives in Seattle, Washington, with her husband and daughter.[10]

Awards

  • 1985 Walt Whitman Award
  • 1994 Verna Emory Award[11]
  • Alaska Council on the Arts travel grant

Works

Poetry

  • Bindweed. Collier Books. 1986. ISBN 9780026276603. 
  • Desiring Flight. Purdue University Press. 1995. ISBN 9781557530622. 

Anthologies

Ploughshares[dead link]

Reviews

Bindweed...shows some of the awkwardness and tentativeness characteristic of younger poets, but it also introduces an artist resonant with talent. Ms. Balk writes poems that stay close to nature, tapping the rhythms of the changing seasons for metaphors of the human life cycle and rounding out nature's powerful processes with the human qualities of joy, loss and grief.[12]

Among the many pleasures of Christianne Balks Desiring Flight, two stand out. First, Balk hasas she showed in her Walt Whitman Awardwinning Bindweeda biologists precise knowledge of the natural world, and consequently her poems convey, at times, the comforting authority of a field guide. But there is much more than that: It is as if Balk has held all the objects of her world, turned them over, and spoken their names until they have transcended the scientific into the poetic.[13]

References

  1. ^ "PequodGoogle Books". Google Books. May 16, 2007. http://books.google.com/books?id=YyszAAAAIAAJ&q=Christianne+Balk&dq=Christianne+Balk&lr=&pgis=1. Retrieved October 20, 2011. 
  2. ^ "Crazy horseSouthwest Minnesota State College. American Language Skills ProgramGoogle Books". Google Books. May 28, 2008. http://books.google.com/books?id=LKBlAAAAMAAJ&q=Christianne+Balk&dq=Christianne+Balk&lr=&pgis=1. Retrieved October 20, 2011. 
  3. ^ "SulfurCalifornia Institute of TechnologyGoogle Books". Google Books. February 28, 2008. http://books.google.com/books?id=CcxZAAAAMAAJ&q=Christianne+Balk&dq=Christianne+Balk&lr=&pgis=1. Retrieved October 20, 2011. 
  4. ^ "CR. The Centennial reviewMichigan State University. College of Arts and LettersGoogle Books". Google Books. June 29, 2007. http://books.google.com/books?id=VR0EAAAAYAAJ&q=Christianne+Balk&dq=Christianne+Balk&lr=&pgis=1. Retrieved October 20, 2011. 
  5. ^ "The Missouri reviewUniversity of Missouri-Columbia. Dept. of EnglishGoogle Books". Google Books. June 12, 2008. http://books.google.com/books?id=gDKxAAAAIAAJ&q=Christianne+Balk&dq=Christianne+Balk&lr=&pgis=1. Retrieved October 20, 2011. 
  6. ^ "Sonora reviewGoogle Books". Google Books. June 7, 2008. http://books.google.com/books?id=xKuwAAAAIAAJ&q=Christianne+Balk&dq=Christianne+Balk&lr=&pgis=1. Retrieved October 20, 2011. 
  7. ^ "Project MUSEPrairie SchoonerBathsheba, and: St. Germaine Considers the Gift of Hunger, and: Mother, Daughter". Muse.jhu.edu. http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/prairie_schooner/v079/79.3balk.html. Retrieved October 20, 2011. 
  8. ^ "Balk, Christianne (Harper's Magazine)". Harpers.org. http://www.harpers.org/subjects/ChristianneBalk. Retrieved October 20, 2011. 
  9. ^ Balk, Christianne (August 1, 2011). "Poetry: John Muir Remembers Eliza Hendricks". The New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1987/12/07/1987_12_07_046_TNY_CARDS_000348385. Retrieved October 20, 2011. 
  10. ^ "Christianne Balk | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers". Pw.org. June 9, 2008. http://www.pw.org/content/christianne_balk_1. Retrieved October 20, 2011. 
  11. ^ "Indianapolis MonthlyGoogle Books". Google Books. http://books.google.com/books?id=OOoCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA41&dq=Christianne+Balk&lr=. Retrieved October 20, 2011. 
  12. ^ ANDY BRUMER (July 6, 1986). "RURAL, SUBURBAN AND KINKY". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/06/books/rural-suburban-and-kinky.html?&pagewanted=all. 
  13. ^ David Daniel (Fall 1995). "Book Review, DESIRING FLIGHT". Ploughshares. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=3905. [dead link]

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