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A Tale of Magicians Who Puffed Up Money that Lost its Puff
—Carolyn Forché
Kaia Sand’s work always interests me: her inventories, interventions, recordings, dispatches, her mixing memos into songs, her soundings and measurements and exposés. These are lived poems, necessary and urgent and I learn from them. She is to be honored, read, shared, and given our undivided attention.
Remember to Wave
the book began as a walk…
“reviews & articles”
“The Oregonian (BT Shaw).
“Street Roots (Carmel Bentley).
“Oregon Humanities (Lucy Burningham).
“Spoon River Review (Ryan Clark).
“Woooo weee!—this book is really something! It’s both “too much” and the “total package,” and then some—sort of like an “All You Can Eat” site—a “smelter”—in a rock-alcove below petroglyphs. “Sand” plus “Wave” plus “Tinfish”—that’s the cool combo, combined with Vision, Heart, Smarts, Reach, Diligence, Direction, and good doses of downhome, downright Whimsy!” — Lawson Fusao Inada
“In this profound and threaded mapping, Sand composes “an ode of accretion”—a song of our ruins made visible.”–Craig Santos Perez
interval
“Sand is a necessary poet, and bracingly new.”–Carolyn Forché
“This work is a love of possibility and the humanity that goes there, with the collectively-driven conviction “it is now we must begin / to gather.”–Heather Fuller
“Whether readers approach this book for its vibrant language, its formal variety, or its political content, they will come away admiring interval for the wit and care that shaped each phrase.” — Dan Pinkerton, “Smartish Pace”
Landscapes of Dissent
Reviews
“Poetry as “Global Positioning System” by Philip Metres
“Poetry and Public Space” by Dale Smith
marsupial inquirer
“Reading this book I found myself feeling an unknown political emotion that prompts my passive reader to become a reader ready to engage (again) the streets–energized by this discussion in which writing is hope & hope is action. Make it public!” –Heriberto Yepez
“In an age in which alienation is among our most prevalent health hazards, Landscapes of Dissent demonstrates that poetry may be newly, again, good for you. This book is a gift. Take the power.” —Carol Mirakove
“Landscapes of Dissent is expansive & sharp–an important book of political-aesthetic scholarship.”–Jeff Derksen
