Descended from the great American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, Alison Deming appropriately begins this philosophical autobiography along the shores of the North Atlantic - on Grand Manan Island, in the Bay of Fundy. Moving on to Provincetown, Massachusetts, and then to Tucson, Arizona, and Paomoho, Hawaii, Deming describes places that are dear to ...
Alison Hawthorne Deming brings to her first collection of verse the kinds of scrupulous observation and clear-eyed analysis that characterize scientific inquiry as well as a poet's eye for the telling moment. Science and Other Poems establishes astonishing parallels between the mute, inexorable processes of the physical universe and the dark ...
The introduction and 17 essays in The Colors of Nature movingly address the question, "What is the earth to people of color?" Exploring history, displacement, return, and relationship to place, these writers show that the ways Americans have impacted nature are inseparable from racism and inequities in economic and political power. Featured ...
With the language of a poet and the eye of a scientist, Deming questions how civilization can strike a balance with a natural world that is threatened by our very presence.
A collection of 12 finely crafted essays on the compelling phenomena of nature. She contemplates such wonders as the behavior of the monarch butterfly, the survival tools of the eagle, the strength of the brown bear, and the change of wood to stone.
A collection of 12 finely crafted essays on the compelling phenomena of nature. She contemplates such wonders as the behavior of the monarch butterfly, the survival tools of the eagle, the strength of the brown bear, and the change of wood to stone.
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