Crushed Wild Mint Goh Poh Seng Midwest Book Review

Midwest Book Review

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Crushed Wild Mint Goh Poh Seng Midwest Book ReviewDescription Crushed Wild Mint is a collection of poems embodying land love and ancestral wisdom, deeply rooted to the poets 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 doingheld by mountains, by oceans, by ancestors and by the grief and love that come