The Way of the River [Kindle Edition]

BK Loren (Author)

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"What is this beautiful and astonishing book that unfolds as gracefully as a waterlily? The story of a teenager learning to defend herself first against loneliness, then rape. A philosophy of the martial arts, and a way of life. A fist raised to the power of women together. A song to the beauty of the human body and the bones of the Earth. A cry from the heart of a woman used to winning all her battles, who finds herself facing more brutal opponents--time passing and the effects of poisons buried in the soil of her childhood home. There are tears in this book, and laughter, insights and the single most beautiful sentence I have ever read." --Kathleen Deane Moore, author of Wild Comfort, speaking of the 2001 print version of The Way of the River.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 288 KB
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0064TJXR2
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #649,466 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

I was born premature. That was the end of my precociousness. Mostly, I have spent my life trying to find quiet jobs that allow some psychological space where I can write in my head as I work. I've worked on a ranch, in a candy factory (Russell Stover), in retail stores selling shoes. I've built furniture, cooked for a gourmet catering service in NYC, cooked, also, in a weird little cafe run by a reverend healer who cured people's ailments with a pendulum and herbs. I was an aide on a locked psych ward, a tenured college professor, a graphic artist, a UPS driver, and now and again I still work as a professional brainstormer for branding companies. I was extremely grateful for the chance to go to college (it was never a given), but I also feel that these life experiences inform my writing as much as any class ever has. The publishing editor of one of my books told me I wrote like I was raised by wolves. I try to live up to that daily.

Along with the books listed here, you can read my work in many magazines, including, Orion Magazine, Spirituality and Health, Three Coyotes, Yoga International, The Body-Soul Connection, Fourth River, Hawk and Handsaw, and many others.

I'm grateful to these fellowships and Residencies:
Mary Roberts-Rinehart National Fellowship
Ucross Foundation
Colorado Council on the Arts Literature Fellowship
Colorado Art Ranch
Atlantic Center for the Arts
and others.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read for Poets and Writers, December 8, 2011

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Maria E. Weber - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Way of the River (Kindle Edition)

I just finished BK Loren's book, The Way of the River. It is one of the best books I've ever read. I'm a nonfiction reader and I've read a lot of excellent writing that puts me to sleep. Literally. I read only before I go to bed and whatever I'm reading puts me to sleep. This book kept me awake and wanting to read it from beginning to end in one sitting. Even though it's a book about martial arts--a subject I would not normally ever pick off the shelf--her story is riveting. It's a story that (almost) any woman will resonate with because it's about overcoming the lack of self confidence that was bred into us as young women. BK has a way of pulling us into her thoughts, which echo our own, and showing us how she deals with her inner demons . . . through the physical. She translates her early life story into a poetic demonstration of excellent, magical writing. So I would say, this is a must read for poets and writers, especially women.