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"Baba Yaga, Demeter, and the Drunken Mother: Myth, Metaphor, and Science at the End of the World" - A Lecture by Alison Deming
Poet, essayist, and University of Arizona creative writing teacher Alison Hawthorne Deming will give an interdisciplinary talk that includes environmental science, literary analysis and environmental ethics. Deming – author of seven books, including her newest fall 2009 arrival, "Rope," which tackles Hurricane Katrina, Greek myth, and the search for extraterrestrial life – has received multiple awards for her work, including but not limited to a Pushcart Prize, a Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets and a Wallace Stegner fellowship.
Audience: All
Where
Poetry Center
Contact Info & Links
Poetry Center
520-626-3765
poetry@email.arizona.edu
http://poetrycenter.arizona.edu/events/fallreadings_09.shtml#deming