“Climate change is a moral challenge, not simply an economic or technological problem. It is linked to social justice, because it is the poor citizens of the world who will suffer the most from our excesses.” WorldProblemSufferingSocialChallengesJusticePoorMoralEconomicCitizensSocial JusticeClimateClimate ChangeExcessTechnologicalLinked Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“The countries that are the least responsible for causing climate change are paying the heaviest price.” CountryResponsibleClimateClimate Change Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“I like to joke that I started writing long poems out the anxiety over ending and starting poems. It just seemed easier to keep going.” WritingLongEasierAnxietyJokesStartingKeep Going Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“I like the dance between sustained focus and digression that the long poem invites. A controlling metaphor helps to sustain the long poem.” LongHelpingFocusMetaphorInvites Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“I like to use research to enlarge the poem. And sometimes a rhetorical or syntactical gesture stitches the poem along.” SometimesUseResearchGesturesStitchesRhetorical Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“I do think that the long poem speaks for an inner need for continuity. We live in a time of so many losses, disruptions, and distractions, that the need for a sense of the ongoing is quite real. The long poem is very satisfying in offering the psyche a model of coherence.” ThinkingNeedsLongRealSpeakLossModelsSatisfyingDistractionOfferingOngoingContinuityDisruptionCoherence Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“I was attacked by two dogs when I was three and a half years old. I'm lucky to be alive. My face was stitched back together and here I still am, gratefully so. I believe that experience shocked me into a deep alliance with the animal world, its beauty and viciousness and terror.” WorldYearsBelieveStillsTwoTogetherFacesThreeI BelieveAnimalHalfAliveDogLuckyTerrorShockedAlliancesBack TogetherAnimal WorldHalf A YearTwo DogsLucky To Be Alive Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“I don't know much about death and the sorriest lesson I've learned is that words, my most trusted guardians against chaos, offer small comfort in the face of anyone's dying.” KnowsFacesDyingComfortLessonsOffersChaosI've LearnedTrustedGuardian Book:Temporary Homelands Source: Temporary Homelands
