Christopher Cokinos: 3 books
by Christopher Cokinos
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In this brooding and daring collection of lyric prose set on the lush prairie of eastern Kansas, writer and naturalist Christopher Cokinos explores the dangers of falling too much in love with the outer world as a way of escaping a deeply fraught marriage. In landscapes both broken and bountiful, he...
by Christopher Cokinos
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
In this acclaimed volume, prizewinning poet and nature writer Christopher Cokinos takes us on an epic journey from Antarctica to outer space, weaving together natural history, memoir, and in-depth profiles of amateur researchers, rogue scientists, and stargazing dreamers to tell the riveting tale of how the study of meteorites became a modern science.
Hope Is the Thing With Feathers
A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
A prizewinning poet and nature writer weaves together natural history, biology, sociology, and personal narrative to tell the story of the lives, habitats, and deaths of six extinct bird species.