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I don't know much about death and the sorriest lesson I've learned is that words, my most trusted guardians against chaos, offer small comfort in the face of anyone's dying.

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As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.

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Alison Hawthorne Deming

Alison Hawthorne Deming

Born: 1946 (age 79)
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:
  1. Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit (2014)
  2. Science and Other Poems (1994)
  3. Writing the sacred into the real (2001)
  4. The edges of the civilized world (1998)
  5. The Monarchs: A Poem Sequence (1997)

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