Quotes by Alison Hawthorne Deming

Alison Hawthorne Deming

I like bringing poetry’s focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence of the sentence, are really important to me in prose.

Focus

Important

Musical

I like the dance between sustained focus and digression that the long poem invites. A controlling metaphor helps to sustain the long poem.

Focus

Helping

Long

I like to joke that I started writing long poems out the anxiety over ending and starting poems. It just seemed easier to keep going.

Anxiety

Long

Writing

I think I started writing as a young person because I felt a lot of psychic confusion and emotional confusion, and writing was a way to sort it out. You know, to externalize it, sort it out, put it down, look at it, and hopefully it would become clearer.

Emotional

Psychics

Writing

I’m always doing poems from a place of not-knowing, a place of ignorance in a way.

Ignorance

Knowing

Not Knowing

I’m always trying to ask myself both “Who am I as an individual?” and “What are the cultural forces that have made me the person that I am?” How can I understand myself as a cultural creature as well as an individual? I’m really obsessed with that question, and always asking my students to consider it.

Always Trying

Asking

Students

I’m always trying to bring as many poetic properties as possible to the essay without making it too overburdened.

Always Trying

Essays

Poetic

I’m filled with despair. We live in a pathological culture filled with rage and bitterness and greed. The hate-mongering and racism is reaching a frightening pitch.

Greed

Hate

Racism

It’s extremely important that, as writers, we give a voice to those who don’t have voices, including the other animals that we share the planet with and the places that are endangered or being lost.

Animal

Giving

Voice

Life seems complicated to me; I feel confused a lot of the time by life. I feel confused about the fact that we can be so tender as creatures to one another, and so monstrous at the same time.

Complicated

Confused

Facts

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Action

Always Trying

Animal

Anxiety

Art

Artist

Asking

Attention

Bearing Witness

Bears

Beautiful

Bleeding

Body

Climate

Complicated

Confused

Different

Discipline

Discovery

Earth

Emotional

Environmental

Essays

Expression

Facts

Focus

Giving

Greed

Grief

Hate

Helping

Hero

Ignorance

Important

Knowing

Late

Long

Looks

Loss

Mind

Moments

Musical

Not Knowing

People

Play

Poet

Poetic

Practice

Psychics

Racism

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Quotes by Alison Hawthorne Deming

Alison Hawthorne Deming

I like bringing poetry’s focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence of the sentence, are really important to me in prose.

I like the dance between sustained focus and digression that the long poem invites. A controlling metaphor helps to sustain the long poem.

I like to joke that I started writing long poems out the anxiety over ending and starting poems. It just seemed easier to keep going.

I think I started writing as a young person because I felt a lot of psychic confusion and emotional confusion, and writing was a way to sort it out. You know, to externalize it, sort it out, put it down, look at it, and hopefully it would become clearer.

I’m always doing poems from a place of not-knowing, a place of ignorance in a way.

I’m always trying to bring as many poetic properties as possible to the essay without making it too overburdened.

I’m filled with despair. We live in a pathological culture filled with rage and bitterness and greed. The hate-mongering and racism is reaching a frightening pitch.

It’s extremely important that, as writers, we give a voice to those who don’t have voices, including the other animals that we share the planet with and the places that are endangered or being lost.

Life seems complicated to me; I feel confused a lot of the time by life. I feel confused about the fact that we can be so tender as creatures to one another, and so monstrous at the same time.

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