Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit

Writer and poet Alison Hawthorne Deming is the author of the new book Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit, a collection of essays that explores the loss of animals and its meaning for human imagination and existence. Hawthorne is a professor of creative writing at the University of Arizona, where she is also affiliated with the Institute of the Environment and a member of the board of directors of Orion magazine. Her body of work include several books of poetry, including Science and Other Poems, winner of the Walt Whitman Award, and three other nonfiction books: Temporary Homelands, The Edges of the Civilized World, and Writing the Sacred Into the Real. Part of the Creative Writing Program's Environmental Imagination Series