Hot Thicket - Cassandra Rockwood Ghanem

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Résumé :
Hot thicket, is a poetic journey through interpersonal and societal wildfires. With the turn of each page, the heat slowly rises as small children cry out against the patriarchy, modern-day colonizers are held in check, and the planet itself is given a platform to voice millennia of abuse and desecration. Within the burning passages, Cassandra Rockwood Ghanem illuminates hidden truths with flames of a different kind, flames lit to incinerate an outmoded culture of ignorance and denial--...

Sommaire:
Cassandra Rockwood Ghanem holds a BA from California Institute of Integral Studies and an MFA in Creative Writing from California College of the Arts. Her award-winning poems and creative nonfiction have been published locally and internationally. She is currently in the final stages of editing a book-length lyric essay about generational trauma. Also the illustrator of Basho's Haiku Journeys, a haiku picture book, Cassandra derives her versatility through prolific creative experimentation and cross-pollination between artistic disciplines and literary forms. Cassandra upholds values of diversity and inclusion and has taught workshops and classes at community centers, high schools, colleges, and universities in Alaska, Hawaii, and California. In 2019, Cassandra led a year-long literary reading series for women and non-binary writers at The Beat Museum in San Francisco....