Bindweed

by Christianne Balk

The academy of American Poets 1985 Walt Whitman award winner.

Genres: Poetry

54 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1986

Reviews

[Ben Davis · Rating 4 out of 5]

At their best, the poems of Bindweed have a concrete reality imparted by Balk's naturalist eye. But it is the eye that governs - the eye that sees and catalogues. The imagery is defined by seen shape, color, and texture. For poetry so grounded in lived experience of the natural world, it is surprisingly detached; it is a poetry of observation, not participation.

[SmarterLilac · Rating 4 out of 5]

So great. I've never read a Walt Whitman Award winner I didn't love.

[Mills College Library]

811.54 B1866b 1986