What a Body Knows: Finding Wisdom in Desire

I simply cannot praise the book enough! The prose is positively brilliant. It is full of sparkling gems of insight and astonishing, concise yet profound formulations. The nature passages remind me of Annie Dillard. It is truly a remarkable achievement! Miranda Shaw, Ph.D., Professor of Religion, University of Richmond

Kimerer LaMothe, award-winning author, philosopher, and dancer, is co-founder of Vital Arts, a center for arts and ideas in upstate New York. She earned her doctorate in Religion from Harvard University, and has received fellowships for her work in religion and dance from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the Center for the Study of World Religions, both at Harvard. After teaching at Brown and then Harvard Universities, where she wrote two books, many articles, and performed two original solo dance concerts, LaMothe moved with her life partner and their four children to the farm where she wrote this book. Her previous books are: Nietzsche's Dancers (Palgrave MacMillan) and Between Dancing and Writing (Fordham University Press).