Tamiko Beyer crafts poetry that delves into the intersections of identity and social structures. Her work often draws from her experiences with diverse cultures and activism, revealing a profound engagement with marginalized voices. Beyer's style is both lyrical and incisive, with each line carefully honed to evoke a strong emotional resonance. Her writing invites readers to contemplate the complexities of the world and our place within it.
"Divided into four sections, Poetry as Spellcasting utilizes poetry as a tool for healing-justice transformation. The book guides readers to explore and deepen the creative and intuitive parts of themselves as catalysts for transformative healing and social change"-- Provided by publisher
"Last Days is a practice of radical imagination for our current political and environmental crises. It excavates the conditions that have brought us here-white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, corporate power, capitalism-and calls ancestors, birds, organizers, and lovers to conjure a new world. It explores how to transform our future to be more beautiful, more just, and more compassionate than we can imagine. Social-justice poems interrogate positions of white privilege and racial oppression from a vantage of a mixed-race woman"--