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Auvinen, Karen.
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Auvinen, Karen.
Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Mountain life -- Rocky Mountains.
Solitude.
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Auvinen, Karen.
Auvinen, Karen.
Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Mountain life -- Rocky Mountains.
Solitude.
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Rough beauty : forty seasons of mountain living / Karen Auvinen ; watercolor illustrations by Greg Marquez.
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Auvinen, Karen.
Scribner, c2018.
Call #:
978
.8034
A942rb
Subjects
Auvinen, Karen.
Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Mountain life -- Rocky Mountains.
Solitude.
ISBN:
9781501152283
1501152289
Edition:
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description:
x, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Contents:
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.
Summary:
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.
Genre:
Memoirs.
Other authors:
Marquez, Greg.
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