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By Linda Ravenswood
Poetry - Paperback
Linda Ravenswood is a mixed Indigenous, Mestiza, European & Jewish scholar & performance artist from California. Recent publications include XLA Poets (Hinchas Press, 2021) & The Stan Poems (Pedestrian Press, 2022). She is the founder & editor-in-chief at The Los Angeles Press. Find her at thelosangelespress.com
A beautiful book, full rapture. A heartbeat of California -- a full throttle must read!" — Allison Hedge Coke, author of Dog Road Woman, poet & professor
"Linda Ravenswood reminds us that our selfhood is woven of disparate strands: bloodlines & memory, culture & history, nature & the wreckage of dominion. She thrusts us into the midst of these entwined & dynamic filaments, demands we sift through the rush of it. she invites us to contemplate the “gentle absurd differences/ between poems & hieroglyphs,” all signs to be decoded. In the end, the book is an act of reclamation: “i become/something that is not vanished." — Terry Wolverton, poet and author of Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Woman's Building
"Linda Ravenswood paints with words that move minds, hearts, & mountains. A true poet in a true poet’s constellation."— Luis J. Rodriguez, poet laureate of Los Angeles, author of La Vida Loca
"shifting, phantasmagorical, & ecstatic. Equal parts history & worship, this is a collection that sees the complexity of the world and refuses not to love it. a screed of lost words, grappling with indigeneity & language, of children, lost in immigration detention before ever arriving, of sacred chants, calling-in both ancestors & future generations. “Let’s imagine other people,” it seems to say, “let’s splash around in their unimaginable-ness,” it teases, “let’s imagine anyway. Imagine seriously. Imagine hard.” To imagine, Ravenswood turns to the grand & small stories of history, to the specificity of the present moment, & to the rhythms of song and prayer."— Brian Sonia-Wallace, poet / activist,author of The Poetry of Strangers
"A powerful collection that pierces the liminal space between survival & devotion. Linda Ravenswood explores identity—who is the self if we do not look like the people we came from? Her stunning collection is filled with genetic memories from a mixed & diverse heritage, told from the unique perspective of both insider & outsider. a declarative wonder, a testament to inclusivity." — Jennifer Lewis, editor of Red Light Lit