SOUNDS IN MY MÖBIUS MIND
Ash Good

“Biographically naked and humane, Ash Good neutrally observes the rough edges of life with family and lovers/friends that the less attentive and grounded writer might think should be polished or even concealed.  Touring the everyday with attention that makes events much more than ordinary, she generously layers physical observation and direct expression in a way that feels intimate. You realize this is not a tell-all aesthetic,  but a practice of the self’s spiritual stripping. In her relationship to the landscape, particularly the landscape of America where mobility and ‘freedom’ are prized, and in the way that movement represents spiritual searching, you feel her connection to the Beats, and her clean language finds you thinking, ‘if Gary Snyder had been a girl . . . .’  For Ash Good a shamanic-led northwestern vision quest fills in for the zendos of Kyoto—a journey full of unexpected events and tendernesses.”

—Karen Kevorkian, author of Lizard Dream & White Stucco Black Wing 

“Each poet’s journey entails risks that a reader is spared. With an abundance of selfless generosity, Ash Good lets us savor her hard-won knowledge, etched in succinct rhythms and luscious detail.  Her poems constitute an invigorating addition to the canon-yet-to-be of West Coast poets that has been shaped by Eloise Klein Healy, Sharon Doubiago, Judy Grahn and Philip Whalen. She is well on her way to joining these comrades with poems that joyfully offer you the pleasure of their company.”
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—Bill Mohr, author of Hidden Proofs & Vehemence 
124 pages | A5  5.83 x 8.27 in. | 2018
ISBN-13: 978-0-99-729875-8 (paperback)
$16
Ash Good is a queer designer, curator, editor, priestess and author of several books of poetry including These Things Will Never Happen Quite Like That Again, Sounds in My Möbius Mind and We Are Not Ready for What We Are. Ash is a workshop facilitator for Portland Women Writers, co-founder of First Matter Press, and the initiatrix of High Priestesses of Poetry. They live in Portland, Oregon.
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