Rooted and Reduced to Dust by Ivy Raff

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“Observant, challenging, sensuous, glowing with an undercarriage of mystique, Raff’s poems are torsos that twist to embrace the universe.  Every muscled line is taut, knowing its desire and how to hold what it loves in its arms.”
–Jimmy Santiago Baca, American Book Award-winning author of Martin and Meditations on the South Valley 

 

“Ivy Raff writes a poetry of relentless inquiry into the past. She subjects her ‘generational history of displacement’ to a restorative poetic justice and joy. The investigation scrutinizes. It is lacerating, honest, an inquest, finally, into the strength of love as it is conducted through the body into the poem. I find these poems fearless in tracing the map of the journey from Jerusalem to Far Rockaway to Detroit, establishing a new place full of potential. These poems are alive.”
–Bruce Smith, author of The Other Lover, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award

 

“Ivy Raff‘s powerful collection reveals complex and universal themes of love, loss, family, and yearnings.  The pages of her collection conjure life’s experiences with profound intimacy.  Raff’s insightfulness is provocative.”
–Sarah Birnbach, author of A Daughter’s Kaddish: My Year of Grief, Devotion, and Healing

 

 

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Rooted and Reduced to Dust

by Ivy Raff

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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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