{"product_id":"poetry-as-spellcasting-poems-essays-and-prompts-for-manifesting-liberation-and-reclaiming-power-9781623177195","title":"Poetry as Spellcasting: Poems, Essays, and Prompts for Manifesting Liberation and Reclaiming Power","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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten for poets, spellcasters, and social justice witches, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoetry as Spellcasting\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the ways poetry and ritual can, together, move us toward justice and transformation. It asks: \u003ci\u003eIf ritualized violence upholds white supremacy, what ritualized acts of liberation can be activated to subvert and reclaim power?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn essays from a diverse group of contributing poets, organizers, and ritual artists, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoetry as Spellcasting\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\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 with a poem and includes prompts that invite the reader to engage more deeply with: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePortals of Inheritance: Ancestral Teachings, Possible Futures \u003c\/b\u003eopens portals to messages from ancestors and for survival\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLanguages of Liberation, Disruption, and Magic\u003c\/b\u003e explores how poetry and spellcasting allow us to enter into and harness language in active, heightened ways that both reflect reality and manifest alternatives.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eInvoking Radical Imagination\u003c\/b\u003e leans into the incantatory possibilities of poetry as prayer and poetry as enchantment.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSacred Practices: Rituals of Repair and Revision\u003c\/b\u003e explores writing as ritual, ritual as practice, and practice as doing, drawing connections between the creative practices of poetry and spellwork.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLighting Fires, Breaking Chains \u003c\/b\u003efocuses on the explicitly magical and political nature of poetry as spellcasting.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eElemental Ecologies, Spiritual Technologies \u003c\/b\u003ewrestles with concepts of home, colonization, and belonging\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoth poetry and occult studies have been historically dominated by white, cishet writers; here, Poetry as Spellcasting reclaims the centrality of queer and BIPOC voices in poetry, magic, and liberatory spellwork.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e North Atlantic Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/16\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781623177195\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Tamiko Beyer, Destiny Hemphill, Lisbeth White","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42776240816309,"sku":"9781623177195","price":17.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_e97aa73c-f669-4935-a02a-709c2e4ef63a.jpg?v=1679412068","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/poetry-as-spellcasting-poems-essays-and-prompts-for-manifesting-liberation-and-reclaiming-power-9781623177195","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}