Rough beauty
Subtitle: forty seasons of mountain living
By: Karen Auvinen ; watercolor illustrations by Greg Marquez
Contributors: Marquez, Greg, illustrator
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781501152283
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Solitude; Mountain life; American Authors; Biography
Description: A memoir by an award-winning poet describes her retreats to a primitive mountain cabin to write in solitude and find answers to life's big questions, describing how a fire forced her to reconcile her conflicting needs for isolation and community.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: The hard prayer; title: Part I. Marlboro woman; title: Good girl; title: Saying no; title: Marlboro woman; title: Part II. Refuge; title: Summer into fall; title: Winter; title: Spring; title: Summer; title: Part III. Home of the somewhat feral; title: Controlled burn; title: Home of the somewhat feral; title: Fuck T.S. Eliot; title: The book of mornings; title: Part IV. A season of voluptuousness; title: Loving Elvis; title: Yajna: fire ceremony; title: A season of voluptuousness; title: Epilogue: The fox who came to dinner.