![]() ![]() This debut collection marks Kisner as a voice to listen to.” She’s like a physician, taking the pulse of society, and sharing the results matter-of-factly, without judgment. “Kisner’s writing is unflinching, written with a curious and open mind and heart. She’s one of the few contemporary writers who knows how to bridge spiritual and temporal worlds, but who’s also able to alter and expand our understanding of the metaphors we live by through immersive research and writing.” ![]() “With this collection, Jordan takes her place among the next generation of American Transcendentalists, and those true essayists for whom nothing human is too strange to write about, even the wish to be something more than individual and more than human. pulling the reader along on her journey to excavate the intimate from the observed.” “Kisner displays an impressive range of narrative modes in this book, bouncing nimbly between gravity (in her ethnography and her bird’s-eye philosophizing) and comic relief…. ![]()
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