Rose Quartz: Poems Oji-Cree and all of us who

and all of us who live amongst Tricksters

disillusionment with Catholicism

" —Richard Wagamese

His colorful images breathe life into Muskrat and Skunk

Yukon history

Rose Quartz: Poems Oji-Cree and all of us whoDraw 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