Christopher Bolin teaches writing at the College of St. Benedict and St. John's University. He is the author of Ascension Theory (Iowa, 2013). Christopher lives in St. Joseph, Minnesota.

Other poems by Christopher Bolin in Verse Daily:
October 20, 2013:   "Equation for Cresting" "This is the world's reenactment of today..."

Books by Christopher Bolin:

Other poems on the web by Christopher Bolin:
Two poems
Three poems
"Immersion Data"

Christopher Bolin on Twitter.

About Form from Form:

"Where is the stability in a world that is a victim of itself? Thomas Merton came to mind as I was reading this book, his being a person whose cold eye can be cast on everything in sight while his heart is all fire and depth. I think these marvelous poems wrestle with contradiction and so bring us to the possibility of change."
—Fanny Howe

"Chris Bolin has an expert sense of the line and a very keen feel for the poetic image, constructing poems that move with a calm and stately radiance. In its austere tableaux and impersonal but poetically authoritative language, Bolin's work brings to mind Saint-John Perse's Anabasis, creating an overall and haunting impression of mankind's struggle with the material world as he tries to tame, engineer, modify, exploit, find a place in, and save it. Bolin is a poet's poet, and I expect I'll keep this beautiful book near at hand to be inspired by its marvels often."
—Geoffrey Nutter