Alison Hawthorne Deming’s most recent books include A Woven World: On Fashion, Fisherman, and the Sardine Dress, Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit, and the poetry collection Stairway to Heaven. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and Walt Whitman Award, she is Regents Professor at the University of Arizona. She lives in Tucson and on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, Canada. Author photo by Bear Guerra.
Alison Deming
Poetry
Chauvet
shoulder heavy bison cascade of running horses rhino horn repeats dance like a book of stills made motion picture as pages flip vulva coaled on pendulous rock these are the inner Continue reading
Poetry
Gullwing
Found a gullwing in the woods broken fan of gray feathers held with sinew glassine remains of skin. Spine of each pin feather large enough to make a pen some feathers Continue reading
Review
Early Spring
HOW ARE WE TO SEE OURSELVES as characters — as actors — in the enormous story of climate change and the planet’s diminishment? How do we change our role in the Continue reading
Poetry
The Web
Is it possible there is a certain kind of beauty as large as the trees that survive the five-hundred-year fire the fifty-year flood, trees we can’t comprehend even standing beside them Continue reading