A collection drawn from letters and emails, MAKE AN EFFORT centers unseen labor in all its affection and clutter—the labor of reading, the labor of reaching, the labor of the link—”the wrestling attempt to connect”—as a means to understand the essential relational work of keeping in touch.
Excerpt:
“What’s left in that air? What’s left in the air when our speech is there, but we are not allowed to be there? When a person writes something a man doesn’t like—what’s in the air?”