Crushed Wild Mint Wolves Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond

Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond

and photos showing breathtaking views of Kluane mountains

Introduced and contextualized by bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones

Short-listed Governor General's Literary Award (2015)

Northwest Coast art functions aesthetically and performatively beyond the scope of non-Indigenous scholarship

Crushed Wild Mint Wolves Mary Ellen Turpel-LafondJess Housty ('Cagilkv) is a parent, writer and grassroots activist with Heiltsuk (Indigenous) and mixed settler ancestry. Crushed Wild Mint is a collection of poems embodying land love and ancestral wisdom, deeply rooted to the poets motherland and their experience as a parent, herbalist and careful observer of the patterns and power of their territory. Jess Housty grapples with the natural and the supernatural, transformation and the hard work of