Norris, born in 1947 and living in South Dakota and Hawaii is one of the lesser known to me editors of this series.  She spent two years in a Benedictine monastery and her religious bent is reflected in the number of essays with a religious/spiritual theme.  There was a special emphasis on biography/autobiography and dying, death, and mourning.  Some old favorite writers:  Ackerman, Fadiman, du Plessix Gray, Hoagland, King, Komunyakaa, Oliver, Price, and Vollmann, but favorite essays were by Tim Robinson about the ‘power of ten’, Lenore Cook’s about visiting her father’s ancestral village in China, and Spence Nadler’s reminiscences of being a neuro-pathologist.