Alison Hawthorne Deming
Alison Hawthorne Deming
Deming, Alison Hawthorne
Reading Date: Thursday, September 10, 2009
Welcome-3823
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by Gail Browne
Introduction-3824
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by Kieran Suckling
"Baba Yaga, Demeter and the Drunken Mother: Myth, Metaphor, and Science at the End of the World"-3825
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Reading Date: Thursday, September 10, 2009
Series: Fall Reading Series
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center
Location(s): UA Poetry Center
Series: Fall Reading Series
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center
Location(s): UA Poetry Center
In her opening lecture for the Poetry Center's "Oh Earth, Wait for Me: Conversations about Art and Ecology" series, Alison Hawthorne Deming draws connections between the folk tale of Baba Yaga and the myth of Demeter in order to explore the intersections of science, myth, and ecology.
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