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Rose Quartz: Poems

Rose Quartz: Poems

Lapointe, Sasha Taqwsəblu

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General Poetry

Publisher Price: $16.00

ISBN10: 1571315438
ISBN13: 9781571315434
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: Mar 14 2023
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
A wild, seductive debut collection that presents a powerful journey of struggle and healing-and a spellbinding brew of folklore, movies, music, and ritual.

Draw me encircled // in something // other than gasoline. The poems of Rose Quartz hum with the naked energy of one who has found her way home after a journey rife with difficulty and who has the scars to show for it. In them, Sasha taqwsəblu LaPointe moves from intimate scenes of peril--a car accident, an unwelcome advance at a party, a miscarriage--to the salvific, exhilarating punk scene of the Pacific Northwest and the centering shores of her Coast Salish ancestors. Along the way, she peers into the darker corners of her own search for belonging, and finds there glittering stones dense with meaning and the power to move forward.

As game to follow a beckoning Laura Palmer into the burning woods as she is to step into the shoes of Little Red Riding Hood as she lays waste to her wolf, LaPointe explores the sublime space between beauty and danger through lush, almost baroque, use of folktale and color. Red, white, blue, and an amalgam that is none of the above--rose--vie for the speaker's embrace as a mixed-race woman. Here, poems become offerings, rituals, incantations conjured in the name of healing and power.

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