Daniel Rounds, Notes on the Possession of Animals by Spirits, Ad Lumen Press, 2023, SC, New

Rounds, Daniel. Sacramento. Ad Lumen Press | American River College. 2023. English, First Edition, New, SC, 8vo, 5” x 6,” 175 pp. ISBN: 9780997446920 Stiff black wraps with full-color wrapped photo of night sky, circular cut out to front showing full-color photograph of ferns from frontis, gray and white text to spine. 175 pp. Sacramento artist and writer published by American River College. Told in two parts: “[FIRST PART: ON THE EMERGENCE OF MEANING FROM MATTER]” and “[SECOND PART: ON THE PERFORMANCE OF MEANING BY PEOPLE]” (from table of contents). From Notes and Acknowledgements: “Notes on the possession of animals by spirits…offers a speculative geology (and genealogy) of language that roots human meaning-making activity in a broader set of cosmological, geophysical, biochemical, and historical processes.”