Sandra Alcosser
Given as part of the Poetry Center's "Oh Earth, Wait for Me: Conversations about Art and Ecology" series, this performance begins with Sandra Alcosser speaking about a variety of writers and artists in the context of The Language of Conservation Project and ends with readings from Except by Nature, A Fish to Feed All Hunger, and several uncollected sonnets.
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Discusses Rainer Maria Rilke and his poem "The Rose Window"
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Discusses William Cullen Bryant, W. H. Auden, and Central Park
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Discusses a Gertrude Stein quote from her book How Writing is Written
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"Fox Fire"
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Alcosser, Sandra. A Fish to Feed All Hunger. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1986.
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"What Makes the Grizzlies Dance"
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Alcosser, Sandra. Except by Nature. Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, 1998.
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Sonnets: "Plucking Post," "Regard," "Capture," "Gentle," and "Havoc"
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Unpublished.
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"Woodpecker"
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Alcosser, Sandra. Except by Nature. Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, 1998.
