Title: Rough beauty
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.
Subjects: Solitude, Mountain life, American Authors, Biography, Authors, american, Authors, biography
Places: Rocky Mountains
People: Karen Auvinen
Time periods: 21st century