Killing seasons [Paperback]

Christopher Cokinos (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 59 pages
• Publisher: Woodley Press; 1st edition (1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0939391198
• ISBN-13: 978-0939391196
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,228,592 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Christopher Cokinos is the author of Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds and The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars, both from Tarcher/Penguin. The winner of a Whiting Award, Cokinos has traveled across the world, from Greenland to Antarctica, in search of the stories of science and history that inform his writing. Committed to weaving memoir into research-driven narratives, Cokinos loves to explore the connections between lives and landscapes. With his partner the writer Kathe Lison, Cokinos lives along the Blacksmith Fork River in northern Utah. Visit www.christophercokinos.com for more information, links to reviews, dates of readings and more.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Poet devoted to the world of the word, April 3, 2000

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J Gallaher (Austin, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Killing seasons (Paperback)

Cokinos, active in political and environmental issues, has written a book that is both alive to the world around us, as well as the world of the poems themselves. The subjects of these poems range from a boy learning the hard lessons of time and distance with his father's short wave radio in "Short-Wave", to the brutality of personal and geoplotical conflicts in "Killing Seasons". But what these poems keep returning to, in their strong clear language, is the wonder of seeing, figured mostly as the birds Cokinos loves:

"The vireos, kinglets,

flycatchers and crows,

the nuthatches, woodpeckers and swallows,

the towhees and tanagers--

all gathering, all calling"

It is this calling, this gathering that calls us together as people, that calls us to these poems, again and again. As Cokinos states, in "This": "tell me all you've seen,/ and I will tell you this."