Linda Ravenswood Ordre des livres

Exploring the intricate connection between history and personal identity, this collection of poems invites readers to reflect on their embodiment of collective experiences. It weaves together themes of memory, loss, and the inexplicable beauty found in life's cruelties. The imagery, such as a severed goat's head singing in a tree, serves as a powerful metaphor for the enduring echoes of the past, urging contemplation of what is cherished and forgotten.

Celebrated poet Linda Ravenswood presents 44 hybrid texts which read as maps, diary entries, manifestos, dream fragments, and lists. Her branching perspective of the 500+ years span of the (so-called) Conquest of Mexico by Cortés and the Spanish army (1521-present) explores reverberations across landscapes & cultures of the American West that are still being navigated. The voices explore past, present, & future histories of those who dwell in the West. Some histories explored include WWII Holocaust survivors of Los Angeles, relocated NDN children of the 19th century, Chontales people of the Yucatán encountering ships of Cortés, border blurring, intersectional feminism, and 21st-century balancing acts of Latinidad. This extraordinary collection is a tour de force of poetic craft, colonial sensitivity, intellect, and conscience.