By Yelizaveta P. Renfro
“In those profound and relocating essays, Yelizaveta Renfro applies a scientist’s eye for element and a reporter’s investigative prowess to the basic questions of our nature, human and another way. Her own and botanical inquiries into the subjects of development, demise, and time evoke Annie Dillard and Edward Abbey.”—Justin St. Germain, writer Son of a Gun: A Memoir
“A booklet of uncooked energy and unflinching knowledge, the type that can not be relegated to any specific time or interval yet which turns out to talk out of eternity itself. Like Annie Dillard’s in the meanwhile, it dares to appear with no blinking at humanity’s atypical and short position in this earth, and does so with integrity and poetical insight.”—Robert Vivian, writer of The Least Cricket of Evening
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
Yelizaveta P. Renfro is additionally the writer of the award-winning booklet of associated brief tales a list of every thing on the earth. She lives in Connecticut.
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