story

Poetry. "In Laura Walker's splendid book STORY, she shares the strategies of telling, which, as every savvy writer knows, is a constant tug between sharing and holding back, finding, losing, and recovering the threads of narration—as Paul Ricoeur said: narrative is human time. Walker's rich and delicate story of natural forces, human forces, master narratives, and secret moments whispered on deathbeds is as whole and as fragile as any fine sequence of poems: from soldiers inside of hollow trees to a loved but slightly dangerous brother to birds' silent migration, to the loneliness of a child's unarticulated world, a family history is woven together in moments of safety and danger, achieving clarity. It is the story of herself and the story of the story. It is a dance of life and death and a music to live by."—Maxine Chernoff
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story

Poetry. "In Laura Walker's splendid book STORY, she shares the strategies of telling, which, as every savvy writer knows, is a constant tug between sharing and holding back, finding, losing, and recovering the threads of narration—as Paul Ricoeur said: narrative is human time. Walker's rich and delicate story of natural forces, human forces, master narratives, and secret moments whispered on deathbeds is as whole and as fragile as any fine sequence of poems: from soldiers inside of hollow trees to a loved but slightly dangerous brother to birds' silent migration, to the loneliness of a child's unarticulated world, a family history is woven together in moments of safety and danger, achieving clarity. It is the story of herself and the story of the story. It is a dance of life and death and a music to live by."—Maxine Chernoff
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story

by Laura Walker
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Poetry. "In Laura Walker's splendid book STORY, she shares the strategies of telling, which, as every savvy writer knows, is a constant tug between sharing and holding back, finding, losing, and recovering the threads of narration—as Paul Ricoeur said: narrative is human time. Walker's rich and delicate story of natural forces, human forces, master narratives, and secret moments whispered on deathbeds is as whole and as fragile as any fine sequence of poems: from soldiers inside of hollow trees to a loved but slightly dangerous brother to birds' silent migration, to the loneliness of a child's unarticulated world, a family history is woven together in moments of safety and danger, achieving clarity. It is the story of herself and the story of the story. It is a dance of life and death and a music to live by."—Maxine Chernoff

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780985100780
Publisher: Apogee Press
Publication date: 05/01/2016
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author


Laura Walker is the author of FOLLOW- HASWED (Apogee Press, 2012), BIRD BOOK (Shearsman Books, 2011), rimertown/ an atlas (University of California Press, 2008), swarm lure (Battery Press, 2004), and the chapbook bird book (Albion Books, 2010). Her poetry has also appeared in VOLT, Switchback, Ambush, Thermos, and Fact-Simile, as well as other journals. She grew up in North Carolina and now lives in Berkeley, California, where she teaches creative writing.
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