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title	:	Flight Dreams : A Life in the Midwestern Landscape Singular Lives
author	:	Knopp, Lisa.
publisher	:	University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0877456453
print isbn13	:	9780877456452
ebook isbn13	:	9781587291289
language	:	English
subject	Knopp, Lisa,--1956- , Middle West--Biography.
publication date	:	1998
lcc	:	CT275.K659A3 1998eb
ddc	:	977/.033/092
subject	:	Knopp, Lisa,--1956- , Middle West--Biography.

Page i Flight Dreams

Page ii SINGULAR LIVES The Iowa Series in North American Autobiography Albert E. Stone, Series Editor

Page iii Flight Dreams A Life in the Midwestern Landscape By Lisa Knopp FOREWORD BY ALBERT E. STONE University of Iowa Press Iowa City

Page iv University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright 1998 by the University of Iowa Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Design by Richard Hendel http://www.uiowa.edu/~uipress No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher. All reasonable steps have been taken to contact copyright holders of material used in this book. The publisher would be pleased to make suitable arrangements with any whom it has not been possible to reach. In order to protect the privacy of some individuals who appear in this book, names and other identifying characteristics have been changed. Printed on acid-free paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Knopp, Lisa, 1956 Flight Dreams: a life in the midwestern landscape / by Lisa Knopp; foreword by Albert E. Stone. p. cm.(Singular lives) ISBN 0-87745-645-3 1. Knopp, Lisa, 1956 . 2. Middle West Biography. I. Title. II. Series. CT275.K659A3 1998 977 033092dc21 [B] 98-25213 98 99 00 01 02 P 5 4 3 2 1

Page v For my children, Ian and Meredith

Page vii Contents Foreword by Albert E. Stone ix Acknowledgments xiii Local Traffic 1 Outside 11 Not-Catholic 17 Last Rites 27 August Afternoon 34 Hearsay 40 Flight Dreams 55 Summer Reading 65 Sheet Music 87 Gainful Employment 104 The Imagined Gaze 115 Mistaken Identity 127 The Sidetrack 140 My TM Story 157 Unfinished 179 Flash and Wonder 199 Real Work 204 Writing Nature 219 The First Day 231 Walking with Meredith 247 The Edge of Perception 263 Spirit Walk 273 Omen-catcher 279

Page ix Foreword Albert E. Stone On its face, any analogy between this American autobiography, Lisa Knopp's Flight Dreams: A Memoir, and the Chinese classic Tao Te Ching could prove far-fetched. If, however, we consult the ancient Oriental definitions of the Way (the Tao) and Virtue or Character of the Self (the Te), we can see how aptly the Chinese text serves as a pattern for this midwestern woman's life story. The Tao is translated as the Way in triple terms: first, along the traveled roads of ordinary life; then, leading off into the realm of nature; and finally, escorting the self beyond this world of time and matter. Te, too, proves a suitable model, for it has been translated as character or moral force as exerted externally by a self who feels virtue or rightness as a powerful internal presence. Westerners could, therefore, read Te as the modern word "identity." If so, Knopp's story of her self in its several worlds will manifest both internal energy (will, desire, drive, dream) and external actions in social and public relationships. Taken together, inside and outside define the mature individual. Is this not a far more adequate definition of the autobiographical enterprise than the now happily outdated American notion of a self becoming wholly distinct from and independent of others? Lisa Knopp testifies to this broader understanding of a Singular Life. So, too, she argues, do most women and many nature writers from Thoreau to Aldo Leopold to Annie Dillard.

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