Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living

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. 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. Karen Auvinen.