Poppy State
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From the award-winning author of Creep comes a powerful book by a writer at the peak of her powers—at once a love letter to California and a literary tour de force that tells the story of resilience and reclamation through a relationship with plants, memory, myth, and indigenous knowledge.
Myriam...
Published By Timber Press
Format Audiobook
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Number Of Pages N/A
Publication Date 11/11/2025
ISBN 9781668652466
“Like wandering a maze, the language in Poppy State opens to puns and image and history, building a landscape of poppies and oak trees, Chumash history and Spanish missions, grandmothers and great grandmothers, and curanderas wearing gold grills. This is Myriam Gurba at her most expansive and impressionistic.”
—Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist for The Man Who Could Move Clouds
“I was bewitched, in the ways I wanted to be, reading Poppy State—brought under a spell that offered me greater clarity, a new sense of myself and others, of California, of plants, and purposes. There is some of the ordinary garden magic, sure, born of tending to the ground. But it becomes much more than that under Gurba’s incisive, guiding eye.”—Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"A propulsive, unclassifiable book about ecology and self, Poppy State is as elegant and blistering as fire—and just as unpredictable. Gurba is the poet laureate of righteous anger and reclamation."
—Carmen Maria Machado, award-winning author of In the Dream House