Books

The Holding Hours
University of Washington Press 2015 Pacific Northwest Poetry Series Emotion, raw and unadorned, is woven through the poems of Christianne Balk’s The Holding Hours. Part I explores the subtle and surprising transformations that …

Desiring Flight
Purdue University Press, 1995 By drawing our attention to what we may, at first, be tempted to overlook, the author surprises us by relating it to something else which is not obviously related, …

Bindweed
Macmillan, 1986 Bindweed, winner of this year’s Walt Whitman Award for a first book of poetry, was judged by Anthony Hecht, and it is easy to see how Balk, a native of Fairbanks, …