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"Language was my first love," says Dessa, and her work as a musician, writer, and speaker is studded with memorable turns of phrase. Her style is also defined by empathetic curiosity--an interest in finding unlikely connections between seemingly disparate people and ideas. Over the course of her career, she’s partnered with neuroscientists, shadow puppeteers, a dentist, a traveling circus, and musicians of all stripes: subway bucket drummers, flamenco palmas, a Chinese pipa master, and a Zimbabwean mbira player. Her work on stage and on the page is often funny, usually clever, and sometimes melancholy: poignancy tempered by wry wit delivered in a cocktail dress paired with combat boots. Dessa’s musical career began in earnest when she was asked to join…