{"product_id":"book-grdd","title":"Poetry as Spellcasting","description":"\u003cb\u003ePoems, essays, and prompts to sing a new world into being--Queer \u0026amp; BIPOC perspectives on poetry as an insurgent ritual for manifesting liberation and reclaiming power.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    For poets, spellcasters, and social justice witches, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoetry as Spellcasting\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e positions poetry as a vehicle for healing-justice transformation.\u003cbr\u003eIt asks: \u003ci\u003eIf ritualized violence upholds white supremacy, what ritualized acts of liberation can be activated to subvert and reclaim power?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Through essays from a diverse group of contributing poets, organizers, and ritual artists, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoetry as Spellcasting\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e helps readers explore, play, and deepen their creativity and intuition as integral tools for self- and communal healing and social change. Each section opens and closes with a poem, ending with exercises and invitations to the reader.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003ePart I explores the ways in which language can both reflect and manifest reality--and shows that poetry and spellcasting allow us to enter into and harness language in active, heightened ways.\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ePart II focuses on summoning the Earth’s power, highlighting the magic of eco-poetry in the anthropocene and inviting readers into the embodied knowledge of the Earth.\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ePart III explores writing as ritual, ritual as practice, and practice as doing, drawing connections between the creative practices of poetry and spellwork.\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ePart IV centers on teachings from ancestors, practices for possible futures, and the legacy of poetry as political practice.\u003c\/li\u003e    Both poetry and occult studies have both been historically dominated by white, cishet writers; here, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoetry as Spellcasting\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e reclaims the centrality of queer and BIPOC voices in poetry, magic, and liberatory spellwork.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49321949004080,"sku":"BDgrdd","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/361252-grdd-Square.jpg?v=1733476960","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-grdd","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}