11 Meditations: or Blue Heron Fishing (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781468054842)

Kevin Thornburgh is a meditative poet of Nature and the surrounding environment, whether this be his Southern California home or a train ride through Arizona, New Mexico and Texas; a trip to Mexico; or a fanciful look at characters in LA's Chinatown. He began writing in high school and continued through college, earning an MFA at LA's Antioch University, and meeting many great poets: including Robert Creeley, Robert Bly, Donald Hall, Galway Kinnell, Rita Dove, Mark Doty and Sam Hamill as well as hearing great writers read such as Gary Snyder and Alice Walker. Now 52 years old, Thornburgh has spent most of his life in Los Angeles county of California and writes of ethnic life there with a special emphasis on hispanic culture and Asian life in Chinatown though his background is white American. Religion plays another part in his writing, he is Christian with a leaning toward world religions. His work has been published in many magazines, especially the magaizine CQ or California Quarterly.