Poet K.R. Morrison wrote this book review on Linda Ravenswood’s poetry collection Cantadora – Letters From California. “Linda Ravenswood unravels her personal country through an occupied and often cruel nation, offering fresh windows into mixed heritage, migration, otherness, and gender relations.” Continue reading Linda Ravenswood’s Cantadora: A Healer Song to Sing
By Christopher Soto
FROM: LARB
TONGVA PEOPLE HAVE LIVED in the Los Angeles Basin since time immemorial. As someone raised in the outskirts of Los Angeles, I knew very little about Tongva history or culture until my mid-20s, even though I had to study California history in the public schools here. The first Tongva person whose name I learned was Toypurina. I read about her online, while browsing articles about settler colonialism and histories of Indigenous resistance in Southern California. Since then, I have come to recognize her face in murals and on a poster inside one of my favorite venues — the Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Venice. Toypurina was born in 1760 and is best known for leading a rebellion against colonization by Spanish missionaries.
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