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Rough beauty : forty seasons of mountain living / Karen Auvinen.

Auvinen, Karen, (author.).

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"In the bestselling tradition of Cheryl Strayed's Wild and Helen MacDonald's H Is for Hawk, a stunning, inspirational memoir from an award-winning poet who ventures into the wilderness to seek answers to life's big questions and finds her way back after losing everything she thought she needed"-- Provided by publisher.

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  • ISBN: 9781501152283
  • ISBN: 1501152289
  • ISBN: 9781501152290
  • ISBN: 1501152297
  • ISBN: 1501152300
  • ISBN: 9781501152306
  • Physical Description: x, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: Firsr Scribner hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2018.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
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.

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Genre: Nonfiction.
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Rough Beauty : Forty Seasons of Mountain Living
Rough Beauty : Forty Seasons of Mountain Living
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Rough Beauty : Forty Seasons of Mountain Living

Karen Auvinen is a poet, mountain woman, lifelong westerner, writer, and the author of the memoir Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living . Her body of work, which examines what it means to live deeply and voluptuously, has appeared in The New York Times, Real Simple, LitHub, and Westword, as well as numerous literary journals. A former Artist-in-Residence for the State of Colorado, Karen is the winner of two Academy of American Poets awards and has been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes in fiction. She earned her MA in poetry from the University of Colorado--Boulder, under the mentorship of Lucia Berlin, and went on to earn her PhD in fiction writing from the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Currently, she teaches film, popular culture, and storytelling at the University of Colorado--Boulder.

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