Rose Quartz: Poems Oji-Cree A mind-bending

A mind-bending

and all of us who live amongst Tricksters

an ethnologist with the Smithsonian Institution

Brandi Denison takes a broad look at the Ute land dispossession and resistance to disenfranchisement by tracing the shifting cultural meaning of dirt

" —Richard Wagamese

Rose Quartz: Poems Oji-Cree A mind-bendingDraw 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 taqwblu LaPointe moves from intimate scenes of perila car accident, an unwelcome advance at a party, a miscarriageto the salvific, exhilarating punk scene of the Pacific Northwest and the centering shores of her Coast Salish