Evidence of Flossing: What We Leave Behind
The poems in EVIDENCE OF FLOSSING: WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND are, at their heart, love poems to the something greater within all of us. Inspired by Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and Mary Oliver, naturalist Jen Payne explores the essence of spiritual ecology: the human condition juxtaposed to the natural world and the possibility of divine connection. NPR contributor David Berner calls it, "an unflinching account of our unshakeable relationship to the modern world...God, nature, and ourselves."
80 original and vintage color photographs include a series of discarded dental flossers that prompted the title of the book.
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"Brilliantly incisive commentary on our simultaneous human sense of beauty and waste and loss." -- Dale Carlson, ALA Notable Book Author
"The French poet and novelist Victor Hugo, wrote, 'The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches God--that is love.' Jennifer A. Payne expands on those words with an unflinching account of our unshakable relationship to the modern world...God, nature, and ourselves." -- David W. Berner, Journalist, National Public Radio Contributor
"The collection of writings and photographs powerfully remind us that our everyday actions effect the environment. Jen Payne's writings underscore our role as stewards and the positive impact we can make on the world around us."-- Peter Raymond, Professor, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
"Evidence of Flossing: What We Leave Behind carries prophetic power in the spaces between its words. It is truth and beauty delivered to us in wide-eyed wonder by a heart passionately in love with nature." -- Rita Kowats, Spirituality Without Borders
"In Payne's exquisite introduction to Evidence of Flossing, she provides the purpose of this book: to illustrate, poem by poem, the very fraught relationships which define us, human to human, human to earth and animal, and human to the unifying spirit, which may or may not be her lower case "god." She is sober, admonitory, enraptured and antic by turns, her illustrative photographs always a source of pleasure or irony -- often both. This is a most unusual book, richly thoughtful and sorely, sorely needed." -- Nancy Fitz-Hugh Meneely, Author, Letter from Italy, 1944
"Evidence of Flossing: What We Leave Behind is, at turns, uplifting, funny, sad, sexy, maddening, silly, educational and, ultimately, a window into the fertile mind of a very thoughtful and creative being. This is what art reads like!" -- Greg Sammons, Award-Winning Graphic Designer/Musician
"It's uncanny how Jen Payne grabs hold of seemingly ordinary strands of life -- then surprises us with new meaning. A master at storytelling, Jen brings us to the realization that the stories she shares are actually ours. An engaging, thought provoking and masterful reflection on our collective legacy in this world." -- Mary O'Connor, Author/Poet, Life Is Full of Sweet Spots and Dreams of a Wingless Child
