The Carnivorous Gaze (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780615887616)

A former Professor of Anthropology, Sue Parman is the author of six books and numerous articles on topics as diverse as Scottish crofters, Japan, the European Union, the neurophysiology and cultural patterning of dreams, the relationship of salt preferences to diet, and history of ideas. Over a period of thirty years she served as Department Head, Chairman of the Board and Vice President of the Human Relations Area Files at Yale University, and Fellow of the Society of Antiquarians of Scotland, and was awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Science Foundation, including a million-dollar grant to construct a new anthropology research and teaching facility (see http: //anthro.fullerton.edu/sparman). In addition to her academic writings, she has published in diverse literary genres, from memoirs, science fiction, and travel writing to sonnets and haiku (see www.sueparman.com). Her poetry has appeared in journals such as Fault Line, Cloudbank, Verseweavers, Slant, The Hiram Poetry Review, The Elephant-Ear, The Blue Mouse, and the Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal, and a chapbook The Thin Monster House was published by Finishing Line Press in 2012. Her short stories, plays, and essays have appeared in VoiceCatcher, Lumina, Journeys, The Elephant-Ear, The Los Angeles Times, and Songs of Innocence. Produced plays include "The House of Ravens," "North of Sixty-Three Degrees," "The Red Tide," and "Queen Victoria's Secret." She is the recipient of awards from the Willamette Writers, Oregon Writers Colony, Best Travel Writing Annual Solas Awards, Oregon Humanities, and the Oregon Poetry Association. In Oregon since 2009, she hikes forested trails, stalks Powell's labyrinthine bookstore, and enjoys a sane public transportation system. She is currently a member of the Authors Guild, Oregon Poetry Association, Willamette Writers, Oregon Society of Artists, Watercolor Society of Oregon, and is on the Executive Board of the Oregon Writers Colony. She enjoys giving public talks on poetry as a form of serious play rooted in our biological nature as large-brained mammals.