RavePRISM... an invitation to see with new eyes. Hypnotic and tender, these poems pluck the strings that connect us—to the sun, to the hawk, to the dirt and the worms inside it—and call for us to listen as they vibrate ... This collection is full of meetings—between ourselves, creatures, and the elemental forces that surround us. Emerson’s poems create space for these meetings to take place, and for the reader, through reading and rereading, to absorb their physicality. She pushes the reader out of the cerebral and into the physical through her lyrical repetitions ... If you want to question what you know and how you have come to know it, The Kissing of Kissing is a must-read. Emerson’s collection will leave you dazzled, aching, and hopeful.
