Sign here if you exist and other essays / Jill Sisson Quinn.
"Personal essays tying a woman's love of the natural world to her own experiences as an adoptive mother"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780814255926
- ISBN: 0814255922
- Physical Description: ix, 171 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Columbus : Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State Univesity Press, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Sign here if you exist -- The myth of home -- Metamorphic -- Think like a mountain -- Enskyment -- Trespassers -- Big night -- Begetting -- Seeking resemblance. |
Awards Note: | Winner of the 2019 The Ohio State University Press "The Journal" Non/Fiction Prize |
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Subject: | Quinn, Jill Sisson. Adoptive parents > Anecdotes. Natural history > Wisconsin > Anecdotes. Adoptive parents. Natural history. Wisconsin. |
Genre: | Anecdotes. |
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Homer Public Library | 814.6 QUI (Text) | 000157016 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
Sign Here If You Exist and Other Essays
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Sign Here If You Exist and Other Essays
Finalist for the 2022 ASLE Book Award in Creative Writing Sign Here If You Exist explores states of being and states of mind, from the existence of God to sense of place to adoptive motherhood. In it, Jill Sisson Quinn examines how these states both disorient and anchor us as she treks through forests, along shorelines and into lakes and rivers as well as through memories and into scientific literature.Each essay hinges on an unlikely pairing--parasitic wasps and the afterlife, or salamanders and parenthood--in which each element casts the other in unexpectedly rich light. Quinn joins the tradition of writers such as Annie Dillard, Scott Russell Sanders, and Eula Biss to deliver essays that radiate from the junction of science and imagination, observation and introspection, and research and reflection.