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Alison Hawthorne Deming
Brief Encounter On The Savanna
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May 28, 2008
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On the African savanna, one woman goes eyeball-to-eyeball with a curious bull elephant and wonders at the earth's endless varieties of self-expression.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
Alison Hawthorne Deming
is a poet and teacher of creative writing at the University of Arizona. She is also the author of
Genius Loci
(Penguin, 2005) and
Writing the Sacred into the Real
(Milkweed, 2001).