I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence of the sentence, are really important to me in prose.
I'm extremely interested in science as the mythos within which I live. Science tells me what kind of animal I am, what kind of a universe I live in. … - Alison Hawthorne Deming
I'm extremely interested in science as the mythos within which I live. Science tells me what kind of animal I am, what kind of a universe I live in. …
- Alison Hawthorne Deming
We're facing enormous changes in our planetary life, with climate change and the adaptations that all natural systems are going to have to make to th… - Alison Hawthorne Deming
We're facing enormous changes in our planetary life, with climate change and the adaptations that all natural systems are going to have to make to th…
We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature. - Alison Hawthorne Deming
We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature.
The world is going to be less biologically rich for quite some time in the future. We are always weeping that we live in such a diminished world, but… - Alison Hawthorne Deming
The world is going to be less biologically rich for quite some time in the future. We are always weeping that we live in such a diminished world, but…
Earth's immune system - its rapid response team of self-protection - becomes invigorated at times of peril. And one sees it at play now in the upwell… - Alison Hawthorne Deming
Earth's immune system - its rapid response team of self-protection - becomes invigorated at times of peril. And one sees it at play now in the upwell…
I'm always trying to ask myself both "Who am I as an individual?" and "What are the cultural forces that have made me the person that I am?" How can … - Alison Hawthorne Deming
I'm always trying to ask myself both "Who am I as an individual?" and "What are the cultural forces that have made me the person that I am?" How can …
There are landscapes and species that are not going to be here a hundred years from now, fifty years from now. One gift we as writers give to the wor… - Alison Hawthorne Deming
There are landscapes and species that are not going to be here a hundred years from now, fifty years from now. One gift we as writers give to the wor…
A lot of times students will come up to me and say, "Well, I can't write because I don't know what I think about such-and-such." And I say, "That's w… - Alison Hawthorne Deming
A lot of times students will come up to me and say, "Well, I can't write because I don't know what I think about such-and-such." And I say, "That's w…
If you have this deep feeling of empathy for the natural world, you feel it so profoundly. It's almost a religious experience. I feel that I could ne… - Alison Hawthorne Deming
If you have this deep feeling of empathy for the natural world, you feel it so profoundly. It's almost a religious experience. I feel that I could ne…
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