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TD: Penn State Altoona K. A. Hays is a poet, fiction writer, and verse translator whose work has appeared in such publications as Hudson Review, American Poetry Review, Southern Review, and the Best American Poetry series. She is the author of two books of poetry, Early Creatures, Native Gods (2012) and Dear Apocalypse (2009), both from Carnegie Mellon University Press. Hays studied literature and writing at Bucknell, Oxford, and Brown Universities and currently lives in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. The natural, nonhuman world permeates many of your poems. What role does nature play in your life, and how does this relationship with the natural world affect your work as a writer? KAH: It's possible that my time outdoors (hiking, canoeing, camping, cross-country skiing, gardening, etc.)--in nature, as we say, somewhat removed from our larger society--helps me to be a more pleasant member of society when I return. And come to think of it, as a writer, I often hope for something similar--to look away from the human, and toward the natural, in order to return to it. Anything in nature, closely examined, can become a way of talking about human concerns: human emotions, human relationships, what it is to be
Interdisciplinary Literary Studies – Penn State University Press
Published: Mar 2, 2015
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