Each Thing We Know Is Changed Because We Know It, and Other Poems

by Kevin Hearle

Kevin Hearle's collection Each Thing We Know Is Changed Because We Know It explores the writer's sense of identity against the backdrop of his Southern California hometown--what it was and what it is now and, ultimately, what that change means to him. In these poems we see a love-hate relationship with a land that has become a stranger to him before his eyes. Hearle is a native of Santa Ana, the town known for its winds which once fed the wild California brushfires, but now "Sweeps away the L.A. smog, a haze which is the air of millions."

Genres: Poetry

74 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1994

About the author

Kevin Hearle is a 5th generation Southern Californian. He earned degrees from Stanford University, The University of Iowa, and The University of California at Santa Cruz. His first book was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and the Yale Series of Younger Poets, and poems from that book have been reprinted in: _California Poetry: from the Gold Rush to the Present_ (Berkeley: California Legacy Series of Heyday Books and Santa Clara University, 2004), _Unfolding Beauty: Celebrating California's Landscapes_ (Berkeley: California Legay Series of Heyday Books and Santa Clara University, 2000), _Western Technological Landscapes_ (Reno: Halcyon Imprint of The Nevada Humanities Committee, 1998), _The Ahsahta Anthology: Poetry of Western America_ (Boise: Ahsahta Press of Boise State University, 1996), _The Poetry Cure_ (Tarset UK: Bloodaxe Books and the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, 2005), and numerous course readers. He has been an adjunct faculty member at The University of Iowa, Coe College, UC Santa Cruz, San Jose State University, Cal State L.A., UCLA Extension, Notre Dame de Namur University and Santa Clara University. He has been a founding member of the editorial boards of _The Steinbeck Newsletter_, _Steinbeck Studies_ and _Steinbeck Review_, and he received the Burkhardt Award from the Ball State University Foundation as the Outstanding Steinbeck Scholar of 2005. He is also one of the original voices of the Santa Clara University's California Legacy Series Radio Anthology (broadcast daily on KAZU-FM Monterey and KALW-FM San Francisco, and online at www.californialegacy.org) He is spending the 2008-09 academic year as a Visiting Scholar at the Bill Lane Center for the West at Stanford University.

Reviews

[Keith Sickle]

Lovely poems, beautifully written. Many of them are very evocative of California (I'm a native) and several were quite moving.

[Mills College Library]

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