Bibliograph

Rough beauty, forty seasons of mountain living, Karen Auvinen ; watercolor illustrations by Greg Marquez

Type

Label

Rough beauty, forty seasons of mountain living, Karen Auvinen ; watercolor illustrations by Greg Marquez

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Rough beauty

Oclc number

1037952003

Responsibility statement

Karen Auvinen ; watercolor illustrations by Greg Marquez

Sub title

forty seasons of mountain living

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

Table Of 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

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