Author Description

"Things That Quicken The Heart presents some of the most inventive and adventurous writers, filmmakers, poets, and artists whose work mark our transcultural sensibilities, along common skies and divided horizons. This book is part of a traveling exhibition of installation works and a program of films and videos, each reflecting interpretations of 'the heart, quickened.' They shoot from lists to poems, essays to short stories; the horrific, romantic and the sublime; literalizations to abstractions."--Page 9