As writers, the world is not about individual expression entirely because we are producing works of literature and getting them out into the world.
Alison Hawthorne DemingThe environment is becoming so much a central concern, I see environmental concerns just bleeding into poetries all over the place. My hope is that we won't have these environmental poets tucked over here and everybody else doing cool stuff with language and consciousness elsewhere, but that all of it will become one thing.
Alison Hawthorne DemingWhen we're writing anything, we're bearing witness to the time we live in and how it's different from any other time in history.
Alison Hawthorne DemingI think you have to live inside your contradictions and find a way to accept that that's the human condition - to be forced to live in contradiction.
Alison Hawthorne Deming