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 Living That Our Bodies Are Doingheld By Mountains, By Oceans, By Ancestors And By The Grief And Love That Come With Communing.houstys Poems Are Texturalblossoms, Feathers, Stubborn Blots Of Snowand Reading Them Is A Sensory Offering That Invites The Readers Whole Body To Be Transported In The Experience. Their Writing Converses With Mountains, Animals And All Our Kin Beyond The Human Realm As They Sit Beside Their Ancestors Bones And Move Throughout The Geography Of Their Homeland.