Christopher Cokinos is an American poet and writer of nonfiction on nature and the environment. He is the winner of the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award, the Fine-Line Prize for Lyric Prose (from Mid-American Review), and the Glasgow Prize for an Emerging Writing of Nonfiction. His essays, poems and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Iowa Review, Ecotone, Orion, Poetry, Western Humanities Review, and Science, among many other venues. Cokinos publications include Killing Season (poetry), Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds (nonfiction), and The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars (nonfiction).
Christopher Cokinos
Review
Two Books on Geoengineering Climate
YOU’VE HEARD plenty of bad news on the climate lately. And there’s more to come. Might geoengineering be good news? Geoengineering is the term for the deliberate intervention into climate processes Continue reading
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Instead of Suns, the Earth
IN HIS ACERBIC COLLECTION of essays, The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World, writer and critic Thomas Disch says that “there can be no question Continue reading
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The Windup Girl
READERS OF NATURE WRITING may not be aware of the deep green streak that runs through much science fiction, so Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl might be missed. It shouldn’t be. Continue reading
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Under a Green Sky
Paleontologist Peter Ward’s book on mass extinctions and climate change provides a deep-time perspective that is both sobering and necessary. Under a Green Sky puts the present within a geological context Continue reading
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The Consolations of Extinction
SNOW IN THE SUMMER ISN’T UNHEARD OF in Utah’s Cache Valley, where I live. Last year, after a warm spell, I was suddenly back in my parka — a puffy, crazed Continue reading