Rough beauty : forty seasons of mountain living / Karen Auvinen ; watercolour illustrations by Greg Marquez.
Publication details: New York : Scribner, c2018.Description: x, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781501152283
- 978.8/034092 B 23
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900 - 999 | Hanover Public Library Shelves | BIOG 978.8 AUVI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31906001142034 |
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Prologue: The hard prayer -- Part I. Marlboro woman -- Good girl -- Saying no -- Marlboro woman -- Part II. Refuge -- Summer into fall -- Winter -- Spring -- Summer -- Part III. Home of the somewhat feral -- Controlled burn -- Home of the somewhat feral -- Fuck T.S. Eliot -- The book of mornings -- Part IV. A season of voluptuousness -- Loving Elvis -- Yajna: fire ceremony -- A season of voluptuousness -- Epilogue: The fox who came to dinner.
A memoir by an award-winning poet describes her retreats to a primitive mountain cabin to write in solitude and find answers to life's big questions, describing how a fire forced her to reconcile her conflicting needs for isolation and community.
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