place-based Indigenous alternatives to the destructive logics of the settler colonial state

Her ship carries one passenger

No one knew where Clarke had gone

tribal leaders

Rose Quartz: Poems Ute place-based Indigenous alternatives to theDraw me encircled in something other than gasoline. The poems of Rose Quartz hum with the naked energy of one who has found her way home after a journey rife with difficulty and who has the scars to show for it. In them, Sasha taqwblu LaPointe moves from intimate scenes of perila car accident, an unwelcome advance at a party, a miscarriageto the salvific, exhilarating punk scene of the Pacific Northwest and the centering shores of her Coast Salish