Summary: This week we feature an interview and reading with poet Alison Hawthorne Deming. She reads from Rope, her fourth collection of poems. Rope follows the paths of imagination into meditations on salt, love, Hurricane Katrina, Greek myth, and the search for extraterrestrial life, all linked by the poet's faith in art as an instrument for creating meaning, beauty, and continuity - virtues diminished by the velocity and violence of our historical moment.
