Description
Tangible Terrain
by Christy Wise
Paper
List: $17.99
979-8-88838-526-5
2024
The natural landscape of Tangible Terrain is 1960s northern California when rural lands were consumed by houses, streets, schools and the families living and working in those spaces. The internal landscape is that of a girl who seeks comfort in dry grassy hills, eucalyptus groves, a frog swamp, an open field and nearby Richardson Bay as a counterbalance to ominous words unspoken inside her childhood home.
Christy Wise’s poems and essays can be found in Red Flag Poetry, Bayou Magazine, The Dewdrop, SPANK the CARP Anthology 2022 and Upside Down and From Below, Marin Poetry Center Anthology 2020.
Her poem “Tony’s Cocoon” was a finalist in the Julia Darling Memorial Poetry Prize. Christy’s essay “Memory Book” was designated a notable essay in Best American Essays of 2010.
With her mother, Nancy Baker Wise, Christy co-authored A Mouthful of Rivets: Women at Work in World War II, oral histories by women employed in non-traditional jobs during the Second World War.
Fourth-generation Californian, Christy cherishes walks along the Pacific Ocean and hikes in Desolation Wilderness.
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