The Nightfields - Paperback

by Joanna Klink (Author)

"This collection begins with personal poems that deal with a specific loss, then moves on to other poems that take on the cost of not loving fully, or are written from disbelief at the accumulation of losses and at having to rule things out as one ages. There are also elegies for friends, and a group of devotional poems"--

Author Biography

Joanna Klink is the author of four books of poetry. She has received awards and fellowships from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, Jeannette Haien Ballard, Civitella Ranieri, the Bogliasco Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Trust of Amy Lowell, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. She is teaching at the Michener Center in Austin.