Alison Hawthorne Deming Quotes About Culture

• I'm really interested in culture because it is such a powerful human force, particularly in America where we think it's all about the individual.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Powerful, Thinking, America

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

• I'm interested in thinking about how are we contributing to the culture, what we can write that might help us deepen the culture, make us more reflective, make us more empathetic, make us feel our connectedness in other ways.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Writing, Thinking, Culture

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

• As poets, we don't accept oppression; we are about a freedom of spirit, or whatever you want to call it. I think environmental concerns have to go to the deep place, so we speak from a place of great empathy for the planet - for the disadvantaged people, animals, places, cultures.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Animal, Pensamiento, Gente

• I'm filled with despair. We live in a pathological culture filled with rage and bitterness and greed. The hate-mongering and racism is reaching a frightening pitch.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Hate, Racism, Greed

  Interview with Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org. September 22, 2010.

• I had real concerns about the relationship between nature and culture and places I wanted to write about... I thought, well, maybe I should try prose. It was a real struggle to begin because, first of all, there were so many words on the page - it was terrifying... Beginning was awful.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Real, Struggle, Writing

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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