honestly one of the best most raw, genuine, beautiful, inspiring authors i’ve ever read. gave me newfound appreciation/nostalgia for poetry, philosophy, vermont, writing, reading, living!! full of lots of good quotes (both mary’s and others) from various big and small name poets, philosophers etc. i guess this is in the vein of that “auto-theory” maggie nelson type wave? it’s cool because it gives the satisfaction/feeling of learning that reading good theory does while also being very emotional/personal and not pretentious at all.