Crushed Wild Mint : Poems / Jess Housty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Housty, Jess, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--Collections.

Poetry.

Nature--Poetry.

Nature.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (121 pages)

Place of Publication:

Gibsons, BC : Nightwood Editions, [2023]

Summary:

"Crushed Wild Mint is a collection of poems embodying land love and ancestral wisdom, deeply rooted to the poet's motherland and their experience as a parent, herbalist and careful observer of the patterns and power of their territory. Jess Housty grapples with the natural and the supernatural, transformation and the hard work of living that our bodies are doing--held by mountains, by oceans, by ancestors and by the grief and love that come with communing. Housty's poems are textural--blossoms, feathers, stubborn blots of snow--and reading them is a sensory offering that invites the reader's whole body to be transported in the experience. Their writing converses with mountains, animals and all our kin beyond the human realm as they sit beside their ancestors' bones and move throughout the geography of their homeland. Housty's exploration of history and futurity, ceremony and sexuality, grieving and thriving invites us to look both inward and outward to redefine our sense of community. Through these poems we can explore living and loving as a practice, and placemaking as an essential part of exploring our humanity and relationality."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title Page

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

I

The Future

Nearshore Prayer

Weather Diptych

Ruminant / Remnant

Bowing to Yarrow (I)

Mirror-Touch Synesthesia

You Are Inseparable

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6.6.22

Bowing to Yarrow (II)

Máɫuala

Breath

ƛ̓ásákv

II

A Loon, Alone

Luáɫ

i.

ii.

iii.

iv.

v.

vi.

Where does mercy exist?

Ǧáǧṃ́ (I)

12.15.21

Aunties

Sixty-Eight Plums

Ǧáǧṃ́ (II)

Skuusiid

2.20.22

To the scientist who called my beloved salmonberries "insipid"

Gwani Taught Me

Ǧáǧṃ́ (III)

Transformation

III

Stone

Banquet

H̓ḷxvbís

Shore

Anatomy

Wilderness

Beneath My Hands

Cormorant

Wild Crab Apples

IV

Wá

i. Who are you?

ii. Who are you really?

iii. Why are you here?

iv. What are you for?

September

Spring

Summer

Fall

Winter

Húmá

A Haíɫzaqv Taxonomy

Auricle and Miracle

Dirt Prayer

Crushed Wild Mint

V

Prayer (I)

Remembering the Flood

Y̓úzua

Mountains Teach Us (I)

Instructions for Climbing M̓ṇsǧṃx̌λi

i. You have no idea, no idea

ii. Eventual ascents

iii. Don't be alarmed

iv. You have arrived

Instructions for Climbing Q̓aǧṃi

i. Your favourite ancestor is your starting point

ii. Look for the gifts from the mountain

iii. The medicine shows the way

iv. Improbable flowers (transitions)

v. Snow in July

vi. Follow the blackfly whine

vii. Hawks from above

viii. Life below sunset

ix. And sunrise too

x. You'll forget the descent

xi. Sea level

Love Poem

H̓ṇq̓vṇ́x̌

Mountains Teach Us (II)

Prayer (II).

Acknowledgements

Glossary

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Housty, Jess Crushed Wild Mint

ISBN:

9780889714519