ISBN: 0877455511
Published: University of Iowa Press, 1996
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In this contemplative collection of essays, Lisa Knopp moves out from the
prairies of Nebraska and Iowa to encompass a fully developed vision of light,
memory, change, separateness, time, symbols, responsibility, and unity.
Knopp charts a stimulating course among the individual, community, and
culture that removes the boundaries between self and other, allowing one to
become fully present in the world. Her keen vision sees beyond the ordinary
to illuminate the mysteries and meanings of our personal and natural worlds.
ISBN: 0877456453
Published: University of Iowa Press, 1998
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Reminiscent of Thoreau's introspective nature writing and Dillard's taut, personal prose,
each chapter in Flight Dreams stands alone as a distinct narrative, yet each is linked by
profoundly personal descriptions of dreams, the natural world, defining experiences, and
chance encounters with people that later prove to be fateful. Part Eastern meditation, part
dream sequence, part historical reconstruction, Flight Dreams testifies to a deep
understanding of how the natural world - its visible and invisible elements - guides our
destinies.
ISBN: 080322754X
Published: University of Nebraska, 2002
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For Lisa Knopp, homesickness is a literal sickness. During a lengthy sojourn away from the
Nebraska prairie she fell ill, and only when she decided to return home did she recover.
Homesickness is the triggering event for this collection of essays concerned with nothing
less than what it means to feel at home. Knopp writes masterfully about ecology, place, and
the values and beliefs that sustain the individual within an impersonal world. She is
passionate about her subject whether it be an endangered beetle in the salt marshes near
Lincoln, Nebraska, a forgotten Nebraska inventor, a museum muralist, a paleontologist, or
the roots of Arbor Day as a misguided attempt to "correct" a perceived lack in the Great
Plains landscape as seen from the sensibilities of Eastern settlers. Here is a writer who
has read widely and judiciously and for whom everything resonates within the intricately
structured definition of home.
