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Rooted and Reduced to Dust
by Ivy Raff
Paper
List: $17.99
979-8-88838-376-6
2024
Heaven and earth conspire that everything which has been, be rooted and reduced to dust. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
So begins Ivy Raff‘s debut poetry chapbook, which plumbs the depths of movement, of growth: from one generation to the next, from Eastern Europe across America, from sickness to health. With braided fearlessness and vulnerability, Raff bridges the past with the heartbreaking tenderness of today.
Ivy Raff’s poetry appears in The American Journal of Poetry, Nimrod International Journal, and West Trade Review, among numerous others, and is anthologized in Spectrum: Poetry Celebrating Identity. Recent honors include placing as a finalist for the Julia Darling Memorial Poetry Award, Tucson Festival of Books Literature Awards, Atlanta Review’s International Poetry Prize, and the 53rd New Millennium Writing Awards. Currently nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology, Ivy’s work has garnered scholarship support from the Colgate Writers’ Conference as well as residencies with Atlantic Center for the Arts and Alaska State Parks. She is a co-founder of Make Your Medicine, a small collective of changemakers who support culture shifts toward diversely equitable workplaces. Mainly nomadic, Ivy hikes and bakes artisan challah all over the world, and calls Queens, New York home.
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