{"product_id":"rootagjmrn","title":"Root Women, by Anna Griego, Jerry Martinez, and Ruth Nakamura","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 48 pages, from\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRoot Women\u003c\/em\u003e is a record of dreams in poetic form. Dreams are messages that root us to our deepest self, what some call the higher self or even the root self. This book is an offering of clairvoyance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eFrom the Periodical of Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e, Anna Griego writes from the perspective of forgiveness and healing from loss. Her dreams become messages from a guide of inner strength that lead her on a journey to assurance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eGossamer Threads\u003c\/em\u003e by Jerry Martinez is a series of powerful short poems centered on cosmic truth, an assurance of rebirth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnd in \u003cem\u003eNotes from the Spirit Realm\u003c\/em\u003e Ruth Nakamura writes of the after birth and the process of blooming, renewed through desert magic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCollaboratively the sections cycle through the renewal of spiritual root women.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnna Griego is a writer of poetry and prose. Her work entails a sense of magic realism\u003cbr\u003eand presses through the natural into a dreamlike realm. Her poetry is emotionally real and visual and at times physically felt. Anna is a Native New Mexican residing in Albuquerque. She received her BA in Creative Writing and minor in Chicano Studies from the University of New Mexico. She is a co-author of \u003cem\u003eCrow Moon\u003c\/em\u003e with her section titled \u003cem\u003eMoon: Illuminated\u003c\/em\u003e. Anna has been published in \u003cem\u003eConceptions Southwest\u003c\/em\u003e for her piece \"Snowflakes on The Cherry Lip Gloss Impala\". She received an honorable mention from Southwest Writers for her piece \"\". She also published a profile article in \u003cem\u003eJuxtapoz Art \u0026amp; Culture Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e titled \"Grey PVC\" in 2008 and is currently working on a collection called \u003cem\u003eThe Mother Shell\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJerry LeJuene Ferriera Martinez was born in Plaquemine, Louisiana in 1944. She grew up in Oakland, California, and moved to Mora, New Mexico in 1952. The childhood village life is chronicled in her memoir Looking Back. She also wrote an Indie titled \u003cem\u003eTuesday Was Two Days Ago\u003c\/em\u003e. She resides in New Mexico, paints abstracts, has sold paintings to various local galleries, and wrote various articles in the 80’s for \u003cem\u003eSunshine Artist Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ruth Nakamura has a BA from the University of New Mexico in Multicultural Elementary Education with a minor in Creative Writing. She is the co-author of the Indie published full length poetry book called \u003cem\u003eCrow Moon\u003c\/em\u003e. She has published three pieces in \u003cem\u003eOfrenda Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e online, a poem titled “Prayer” and two short autobiographical essays titled “Ofrendas for Grandpa” and “Poetry Is My Medicine, Our Healing”. Upcoming in August of 2022, Cordella Press will publish two of her poems, “Grandmother, Hummingbird” and “Fallen Bodies”. She currently resides in Rio Rancho New Mexico.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anna Griego, Jerry Martinez, and Ruth Nakamura","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":39787596742727,"sku":"ROOTAGJMRN","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39787596775495,"sku":"ROOTAGJMRNe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/rootwomenfront.png?v=1673037447","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/rootagjmrn","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}