Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
March 2000
Abstract
Lisa Knopp's story will be encouragingly familiar to those who struggle to find meaning in the muddle of family, education, mistakes, insights, and loves we encounter growing up. Flight Dreams is part of Singular Lives, the Iowa Series in North American Autobiography, whose editor asserts in a foreword that Knopp's Way parallels ancient Oriental definitions of the Tao and its three parallel paths. The book proceeds through the writer's childhood, through various work and religious experiences (including Transcendental Meditation and augury), and finally to her writing about nature and her interpretation of her past. Its three major sections show internal unity, but were clearly written at varying times and for assorted purposes.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly, Volume 20, Number 2, Spring 2000, pp. 172 - 173. © 2000 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska – Lincoln.