David will read for about 40 minutes.
Then we'll have time for a short question and answer session.
And then we'll have the book signing.
And I'm very happy to now introduce David's introducer,
Alison Hawthorne Deming, poet, essayist,
professor in the Creative Writing Program here at the U
of A, former and formative director of The Poetry Center--
she served in that capacity from 1990 to 2002--
advisor, friend, and basically someone we cannot do without.
Alison's collections of poetry include Rope, Genius Loci,
The Monarchs, and Science and Other Poems.
Her nonfiction works include The Colors of Nature,
Culture Identity in the Natural World,
Writing the Sacred Into the Real,
The Edges of the Civilized World--
A Journey into Nature and Culture, and Temporary
Homelands.
Please welcome Alison Deming.
[APPLAUSE]
Thanks.
Well, thanks, everybody.