Synopses & Reviews
Soaring across extensive terrain, from the working world of Detroit to American suburbia and pop culture; from the European landscape of World War II to the current war in Iraq, Christine Rhein opens her personal world to the world at large. In poems that explore the historical, social, and scientific, as well as the poignant and humorous, Rhein relishes life’s juxtapositions.
from “Tuning”
I try to tune out the boom! boom! boom!
from the shooting range two miles from my house,
and think of the people who live next door
to the targets, or in the din of London and Berlin
where nightingales now sing fourteen decibels louder
to be heard by mates, quintupling the pressure
in their lungs . . . . . . Imagine
if we could hear bread rising, dew forming, the budding
of raspberries, the tear of a cocoon, a minnow’s pulse,
our own cells growing, dying. When my husband
kisses my ear, I love the swoosh, the quiver, his breaths
and driven by wind, my whispered name.
Review
Wild Flight introduces us to an important new voice. . . . This is a poetry of the highest imagination, and the most energetic intelligence, written by a poet with a keen eye and a large spirit. Her hard look at this life is made beautiful by her art. —Laura Kasischke
Review
One of the mysteries of human life is that it is never an individual journey, a truth that Christine Rhein discovers over and over in this remarkable first book. In Wild Flight, she walks us artfully through the histories she comes from and those she is witness to in our time. . . .The personal is political in these large-minded poems, and the political personal. —Roger Mitchell
Synopsis
A collection of lyric poems by a former Big 3 Detroit engineer.
Synopsis
Soaring across extensive terrain, from the working world of Detroit to American suburbia and pop culture, from the European landscape of World War II to the current war in Iraq, Christine Rhein opens her personal world to the world at large. In poems that explore the historical, social, and scientific as well as the poignant and humorous, Rhein relishes life's juxtapositions.
Synopsis
Lyric poems juxtaposing science and technology, human relationships, love and war.