Rose Quartz: Poems by Lapointe, Sasha Taqwsəblu

Rose Quartz: Poems

A wild, seductive debut collection that presents a powerful journey of struggle and healing-and a spellbinding brew...
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Author: Sasha Taqwsəblu Lapointe
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Rose Quartz: Poems by Lapointe, Sasha Taqwsəblu

Rose Quartz: Poems

$23.93

Rose Quartz: Poems

$23.93
Author: Sasha Taqwsəblu Lapointe
Format: Paperback
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.

Like the stones and cards laid on an altar, Rose Quartz offers a reading at the intersection of identity and myth, trauma and truth, telling the story of past, present, and future.



Author: Sasha Taqwsəblu Lapointe
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 03/14/2023
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781571315434


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/01/2023 pg. 107

About the Author
Sasha taqwsəblu LaPointe is the author of Rose Quartz. She is from the Upper Skagit and Nooksack Indian Tribes. Native to the Pacific Northwest, she draws inspiration from her coastal heritage as well as her life in the city. She is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Red Paint, and holds a double MFA in creative nonfiction and poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Yellow Medicine Review, Hunger Mountain, and elsewhere. She lives in Tacoma, Washington.

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