"Stirring up the Water" is a river of merging currents. In this award-winning first collection, the waters are at times stirred softly as though with the tips of the fingers, and at times harshly like an oar thrusting into the water's depths. These poems address issues of ethnic identity, class, and love.
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Cat Ruiz was awarded the Native Writer's Circle of the America's First Book award in Poetry for Stirring up the Water. Her poems have appeared in Chrysanthemum, Raven Chronicles, PoetsWest Literary Journal, Switched-on Gutenberg and in three poetry anthologies including The En'owkin Journal of First North American Peoples. She is a College English and Writing teacher and lives in Siskiyou County in northern California.
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An ambitious generous collection of poems ofering a variety of 12 years worth of Cathy Ruiz's poetry that often reflect on her rich cultural heritage andher own personal history, memories of family, lovers, students, places she has visited and political perspective.
Not every poem is perfect, but many will resonate and connect with you deeply. The poems are easy to understand and full of beautiful details, stunning imagary, clever phrases and merit several readings. There's a reason it has won awards, has been published in England, and is now available through Amazon. Several poem titles should peak your interest : Beneath Bare Feet, At A Garthering of Friends, Why I Gave Jason B. an A On His Paper Even Though he Called Sherman Alexie a Hack, What Happened to Your Love Poems ?, Off Reservation Blues, Soft Clicking Prayers, and Saturday Afternoon at the Fights. No cheap sentiment or pained cynicism here. There's an affectionate embrace of the past and a willingness to teach. In Peeled Red Onions, her collection of published writing is compared to a yard full of weeds and dandelions, and then layers of onions. Peeled red onions once lay in this box where copies of my published writing are now packed like layers of onion, they are the pulp of past harvests and this is but another field of feeling I pass on an end of summer afternoon. Her carefully chosen words convey several emotions and reflect on life changing events beautifully framed with visual cues that bring the right sense of depth and meaning without getting overly sentimental or maudlin. Notice how much she does in just 6 seemingly simple lines from A HAWK CIRCLED. Now a Hawk circles over the cemetery grounds where my uncle's ashes are buried and up high stretch two wings, a brave and certain look in the eyes. that must have been the same he'd worn when wounded in 1944 as he lay on a hillside waiting. There's more of the same throughout this strong, memorable volume of poetry. ENJOY.
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