<p><em>Giving Ground</em> pulses with traffic and teems with life, leading us through tangled streets, intertwined lives.&nbsp; We find a place of overgrown gardens, alleys in bloom, pheasants in flight, rabbits, stray cats, and Spanish love songs, a place where the ordinary appears in an extraordinary light. With deft narrative strokes, <em>Giving Ground</em> reveals a place and its people, lives balanced on the shifting ground of language and culture. Like the place, Lynn Knapp&rsquo;s poems are wry, real, and poignant.</p>

<p><strong>About the Author:</strong></p>

<p>Lynn M. Knapp is a poet, memoirist, teacher, and musician. She lives in a hundred-year-old house and walks every day in one of the oldest neighborhoods in the Pacific Northwest.&nbsp; The grit, grime, and unexpected beauty of the central city inspire her life and her writing.&nbsp; Her poetry has appeared in <em>The Burden of Light: Poems on Illness and Loss</em> (2014), <em>Poeming Pigeons</em> and <em>The Lost River Review</em> (2015).&nbsp; Her work also appears online at the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner, Washington.</p>

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<p>Accessible and engaging, these poems make us feel as if we are standing on the porch looking out into the small town &hellip;</p>

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<p>Knapp displays gentle humor and the heartfelt urge to understand, to cross the border of difference . . .</p>

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<p>Combining deft portraits of both past and current inhabitants with lyrical nature poems, Knapp reflects the demographic shifts that define American history.</p>

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