Xylotheque: Essays by Yelizaveta P. Renfro
By Yelizaveta P. Renfro
“In those profound and relocating essays, Yelizaveta Renfro applies a scientist’s eye for aspect and a reporter’s investigative prowess to the basic questions of our nature, human and another way. Her own and botanical inquiries into the topics of progress, loss of life, and time evoke Annie Dillard and Edward Abbey.”—Justin St. Germain, writer Son of a Gun: A Memoir
“A booklet of uncooked strength and unflinching knowledge, the sort that can't be relegated to any specific time or interval yet which turns out to talk out of eternity itself. Like Annie Dillard’s at the moment, it dares to appear with no blinking at humanity’s bizarre 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 can also be the writer of the award-winning booklet of associated brief tales a list of every thing on this planet. She lives in Connecticut.
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