Crushed Wild Mint

Crushed Wild MintCrushed 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 with

tobacco has been the focus of health warnings

Now in its eagerly awaited third edition

connecting historical records and art

An absorbing and comprehensive survey

and uncover a hidden legacy of triumphs and betrayals

healing responses to conflicts and crimes

strong opinions

Native leaders are at the center of social change

Much of the focus on the Dakota people in Minnesota rests on the tragic events of the 1862 U

providing healing and love

expanding our sense of how strange and marvelous it really is

and ultimately uplifting