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“The countries that are the least responsible for causing climate change are paying the heaviest price.”

Quote by Alison Hawthorne Deming

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Alison Hawthorne Deming

Alison Hawthorne Deming is an accomplished American poet, born in 1946. Her poetry is characterized by its focus on natural themes and local history, and has garnered widespread acclaim from readers. more

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“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.”

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“I like the dance between sustained focus and digression that the long poem invites. A controlling metaphor helps to sustain the long poem.”

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“I like to use research to enlarge the poem. And sometimes a rhetorical or syntactical gesture stitches the poem along.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“My Third-World roots remind me that the vast majority of our fellow human beings live hungry, sick, and uneducated, and that most social scientists, even in that world, ignore that ugly reality. This is why my papers in mathematical sociology deal not with free choice among 30 flavors of ice-cream, but with social structure, social cohesion, and social marginality.”

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