Great River Legs is a lyric collection of prose poetry, creative nonfiction, and found poetry. This creative response documents my 1, 398 mile, 25-day bicycle ride from Muscatine, Iowa, to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, between October 2017-March 2018. The journey took place in legs over breaks during the school year, with two additional back-to-back weekend rides that started the adventure.
Wiseman embraces the many parts of herself-cyclist, data collector, meditation practitioner, nature lover, quiet observer-and brings them together in a seamless, profound, and captivating way. - Dawn Mauricio
author of Mindfulness Meditation for Beginners
Through small bursts of lyric prose, Wiseman explores the ways "we can begin again, " how we test ourselves on paths that are "steep and dangerous" while learning to accept that we can never "control the day's rotation."
- Jehanne Dubrow, author of throughsmoke: an essay in notes