Doren Robbins's Sympathetic Manifesto presents an unmasked magnum mural of our world. From the mostly backroom labors and laborers in commercial kitchens to the mostly pushed-back labors and laborers of perception and social consciousness, Robbins's builders, lovers, teachers, and other others-including "carcinogenicized insulation installers" and "military flip-outs" and "meltdown cleanup crews"-place us, again and again, within arm's reach of each other and newly in touch with ourselves.