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My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut, and as tight as the best ship afloat. She did not leak a drop - not one drop!
Alison Hawthorne Deming
Born: 1946 (age 78)
Bio: Alison Hawthorne Deming is an American poet, essayist and teacher, currently Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in Environment and Social Justice and Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Arizona. She received a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Known for:
- Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit (2014)
- Science and Other Poems (1994)
- Writing the sacred into the real (2001)
- The edges of the civilized world (1998)
- The Monarchs: A Poem Sequence (1997)