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Heather Swan’s Lyrical Language Of Beauty And Devastation
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On this edition of Madison BookBeat, host Cole Erickson interviews Heather Swan about her latest book Dandelion, a collection of poetry which explores our uniquely human relationship with this natural world, not only in its wondrous beauty, but also in its devastation and fragility.
About the guest:
Heather Swan is a poet, non-fiction writer, and educator in Madison. Her poetry includes the collection A Kinship with Ash, which was a finalist for the ASLE Book Award, and her chapbook The Edge of Damage, which was the winner of the Wisconsin Chapbook Award.
She is also the author of the non-fiction book Where Honeybees Thrive: Stories from the Field, which won the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award. A companion book to Where Honeybees Thrive is expected to be released later this year, titled Where the Grass Still Sings: Stories of Insects and Interconnection.
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