Description
| Product ID: | 9781623177195 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Poetry as Spellcasting |
| Subtitle: | Poems, Essays, and Prompts for Manifesting Liberation and Reclaiming Power |
| Authors: | Author: Destiny Hemphill, Tamiko Beyer |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | Mind, body, spirit, Mind, Body, Spirit |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Poems, essays, and prompts to sing a new world into being--Queer & BIPOC perspectives on poetry as an insurgent ritual for manifesting liberation and reclaiming power. Written for poets, spellcasters, and social justice witches, Poetry as Spellcasting reveals the ways poetry and ritual can, together, move us toward justice and transformation. It asks: If ritualized violence upholds white supremacy, what ritualized acts of liberation can be activated to subvert and reclaim power? In essays from a diverse group of contributing poets, organizers, and ritual artists, Poetry as Spellcasting helps readers explore, play, and deepen their creativity and intuition as integral tools for self- and communal healing and social change. Each section opens with a poem and includes prompts that invite the reader to engage more deeply with:
Both poetry and occult studies have been historically dominated by white, cishet writers; here, Poetry as Spellcasting reclaims the centrality of queer and BIPOC voices in poetry, magic, and liberatory spellwork. |
| Imprint Name: | North Atlantic Books,U.S. |
| Publisher Name: | North Atlantic Books,U.S. |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-05-16 |
