Wild Flight (Walt Mcdonald First-book Series in Poetry) - Tapa dura

These expertly told stories hold interest even when the book is read straight through-a test for any collection of poems. --Donald Mace Williams, Amarillo Globe-News 05/13/08 ""Most writers take several publications and years to find their stride, yet the work of Christine Rhein in her debut anthology of poetry in Wild Flight comes from someone who is already seasoned with years of experience with her brilliant writing and lyrical poems on the subjects that matter most in today's world - technology, love, humanity, and it's ilk. Witty yet sympathetic, critical yet optimistic, ""Wild Flight"" is highly recommended for community library poetry collections and anyone who wants a taste of this hot new poet on the market."" --James A. Cox, Midwest Book Review ""In her debut book, Wild Flight, Christine Rhein's primary exploration is the aftermath of wartime suffering. She does not flinch from the ugliness of armed conflict or the marginalized individuals to whom she gives voice. With deceptive simplicity she is able to embrace sorrow and write about these events in a way that is compassionate, often lyrical, and always poignant...Wild Flight reveals a poet of versatility, one who has the ability to look at suffering with insight and present compelling social commentary. Christine Rhein is an uncompromising voice, whose poetry is profound, illuminating and always surprising."" --Melanie Buckowski, Chiron Review Issue # 86, spring, 2009

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. '""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. '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. 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 minnows pulse, our own cells growing, dying. When my husband kisses my ear, I love the swoosh, the quiver, his breath sand driven by wind, my whispered name.