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David will read for
about 40 minutes.

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Then we'll have time for a short
question and answer session.

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And then we'll have
the book signing.

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And I'm very happy to now
introduce David's introducer,

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Alison Hawthorne
Deming, poet, essayist,

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professor in the Creative
Writing Program here at the U

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of A, former and formative
director of The Poetry Center--

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she served in that capacity
from 1990 to 2002--

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advisor, friend, and basically
someone we cannot do without.

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Alison's collections of poetry
include Rope, Genius Loci,

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The Monarchs, and
Science and Other Poems.

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Her nonfiction works include
The Colors of Nature,

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Culture Identity in
the Natural World,

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Writing the Sacred
Into the Real,

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The Edges of the
Civilized World--

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A Journey into Nature and
Culture, and Temporary

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Homelands.

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Please welcome Alison Deming.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Thanks.

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Well, thanks, everybody.