Telephone

"This book collects a series of essays written collaboratively by the two authors over a span of four years. In this shared process, the inciting work (usually the title) spurs associative images from our personal and cultural histories. We build our pieces by responding to each other's writing until a natural endpoint occurs. Our interactions build a relationship, too, with each gesture requiring trust and vulnerability, not only to each other, but to the writing itself. We have chosen not to label the speaker in each section so that our individual voices surrender into a more collective, and communal, authorship"--Page [9].