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“Bringing science into poetry is one way of acknowledging some of the richest stuff that is in my cultural moment.”

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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

“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 I understand myself as a cultural creature as well as an individual? I'm really obsessed with that question, and always asking my students to consider it.”

Trying Wells Persons Made Asks Individual Force Students Creatures Asking Obsessed Always Trying

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“To me, work is not a burden but my main hobby. This is why I always take work with me when I go on holidays. Moreover, that's when new projects occur to me: while contemplating beautiful landscapes or seascapes.”

Beautiful Goes On Projects Burden Landscape Holiday Contemplating Hobbies New Projects Beautiful Landscapes

Author:Mario Bunge

“It occurred to me that I had the duty to give society something in exchange for the free education I was getting.”

Giving Duty Free Education

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“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.”

Important Courses Language Focus Property Musical Sentences Prose Essays Cadence Compression

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“I grow very impatient with prose writers who don't pay attention to the cadence of the sentence. If you start as a poet, you're wooed by the music of language; you want to put that into your practice.”

Ifs Want Language Grows Pay Attention Practice Poet Sentences Pay Attention Prose Impatient Cadence

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“I'm always trying to bring as many poetic properties as possible to the essay without making it too overburdened.”

Trying Property Poetic Essays Always Trying

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

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