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Christopher Cokinos

Born

Indianapolis, The United States

Genre

Poetry, Nonfiction

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Christopher Cokinos is the author of Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds and The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars, both from Tarcher/Penguin. The winner of a Whiting Award, Cokinos has traveled across the world, from Greenland to Antarctica, in search of the stories of science and history that inform his writing. Committed to weaving memoir into research-driven narratives, Cokinos loves to explore the connections between lives and landscapes. With his partner the writer Kathe Lison, Cokinos lives along the Blacksmith Fork River in northern Utah.

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Average rating: 4.06 · 753 ratings · 111 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds 4.22 avg rating — 453 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide by Eric Magrane (Editor), Paul Mirocha (Illustrator), Christopher Cokinos (Editor) 4.24 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars 3.25 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Still As Bright: An Illuminating History of the Moon, from Antiquity to Tomorrow 3.52 avg rating — 21 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond Earth’s Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight by Julie Swarstad Johnson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Christopher Cokinos (Editor), John M. Logsdon (Introduction) 4.69 avg rating — 13 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bodies, of the Holocene (Contemporary Nonfiction) 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Still As Bright: An Illuminating History of the Moon, from Antiquity to Tomorrow liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Underneath really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Killing seasons 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1993	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Held as Earth 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“We're all eating stars! Every day! What a marvelous annulus of accident and need.”
― Christopher Cokinos, The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars

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“Contemplation that does not foster action is no better than a broken wing.”
― Christopher Cokinos, Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds

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