Rough beauty : forty seasons of mountain living / Karen Auvinen ; watercolor illustrations by Greg Marquez.

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    • Publication Information:
      First Scribner hardcover edition.
    • Abstract:
      Summary: 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.
    • Content Notes:
      Prologue: The hard prayer -- Part I: Marlboro woman. Good girl -- Saying no -- Marlboro woman -- Part II: Refuge. Summer into fall -- Winter -- Spring -- Summer -- Part III: Home of the somewhat feral. Controlled burn -- Home of the somewhat feral -- Fuck T.S. Eliot -- The book of mornings -- Part IV: A season of voluptuousness. Loving Elvis -- Yajna: fire ceremony -- A season of voluptuousness -- Epilogue: The fox who came to dinner.
    • Notes:
      3 5 17 22
    • Other Titles:
      Forty seasons of mountain living. 40 seasons of mountain living.
    • ISBN:
      9781501152283 :
    • Accession Number:
      1037952003
    • Accession Number:
      ccp.1040151