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Should You Lose All Reason(s)
by poet and Zion National Park Ranger Justine Chan (justinechan.com) is at times scorching, at times brimming with awe and desire. Her topic? Coyote-centric Southern Paiute tribe folktales.
This debut book of poems resonates with a brilliance, retelling ancient Native narratives, handed down for generations as American Indians explained the natural world to themselves.
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The more that long, hot summer unfolded, the more time she spent alone in the desert, the more she retold the story, the more the story became her life.
In that mental space, she began to write.
Should You Lose All Reason(s) is unafraid of looking hard -- back, down, towards, around, forward, at the stories we tell, at herself, at the desert, at the sun, at everything.
Forty days in, we breathed, and the pic snapped. |
Drawing from her experiences serving in AmeriCorps, working many summers as a park ranger, and traveling across the United States, she explores race, loneliness, stories, hauntings, family, landscapes and cityscapes, climate change, survival, music, resilience, the West, and America itself. More
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