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"[Housty's] insight is powerful; their language graceful. Crushed Wild Mint, one of the best volumes of poetry I've ever read, is nothing less than transforming."" --Phillip Hoose, National Book Award Winner ""When the mountains of your territory are your ancestors, you paint the landscapes as Jess Housty does in this evocative, powerful collection of poetry: in the language of ceremony as taut as the inner surface of a mussel shell when the meat is stripped away. Housty's hyperlocality is precise medicine, an expansive, generous meditation on the mutual care of mountains, the forgiving veins of rivers, all the liminal territories and beings soaked in the verdant magic of the Pacific Northwest coast."" --Eden Robinson ""I return to read and then stop to wonder, return to read and still wonder: How is this so true? Let these words love you. They'll sing."" --Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas -- ""Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas"""

"""When the mountains of your territory are your ancestors, you paint the landscapes as Jess Housty does in this evocative, powerful collection of poetry: in the language of ceremony as taut as the inner surface of a mussel shell when the meat is stripped away. Housty's hyperlocality is precise medicine, an expansive, generous meditation on the mutual care of mountains, the forgiving veins of rivers, all the liminal territories and beings soaked in the verdant magic of the Pacific Northwest coast."" --Eden Robinson ""I return to read and then stop to wonder, return to read and still wonder: How is this so true? Let these words love you. They'll sing."" --Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas -- ""Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas"""

"I return to read and then stop to wonder, return to read and still wonder: How is this so true? Let these words love you. They'll sing. -- ""Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas"" When the mountains of your territory are your ancestors, you paint the landscapes as Jess Housty does in this evocative, powerful collection of poetry: in the language of ceremony as taut as the inner surface of a mussel shell when the meat is stripped away. Her hyperlocality is precise medicine, an expansive, generous meditation on the mutual care of mountains, the forgiving veins of rivers, all the liminal territories and beings soaked in the verdant magic of the Pacific Northwest Coast. -- ""Eden Robinson"""

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Jess Housty ('Cúagilákv) is a parent, writer and grassroots activist with Heiltsuk (Indigenous) and mixed settler ancestry. They serve their community as an herbalist and land-based educator alongside broader work in the non-profit and philanthropic sectors. They are inspired and guided by relationships with their homelands, their extended family and their non-human kin, and they are committed to raising their children in a similar framework of kinship and land love. They reside and thrive in their unceded ancestral territory in the community of Bella Bella, BC.

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