Description:
In A Body Tangled in Time, Nastashia Minto honors the process of sitting with, in, and around her trauma. Her writing is a reminder that sitting in the discomfort of the past allows us to bask in the comfort of making it through.
Brief description: Nastashia Minto was born in South Georgia and raised there by her grandparents. Her work has appeared in publications such as Nailed, Gobshite Quarterly, Portland Metrozine, and Survivorlit. She is a popular reader at literary events throughout the Pacific Northwest and has been featured on podcasts such as Feminist Book Club, Literary Speaking, and Beyond Well with Shelia Hamilton.
Review Quotes:
This book is a supernova. Nastashia Minto writes and sings and prays her way from trauma to erotic power and joy.
-Lidia Yuknavitch, author of the novel Thrust and the memoir The Chronology of Water
Tight and explosive, erotic and unfurled, this collection will go straight to your heart. Nastashia Minto is a true talent, with the willingness to tell the truth about our world. This book sings.
-Rene Denfeld, bestselling author of The Child Finder
Minto has managed to explore the personal and the universal in a way that delivers the most beautiful punch to your heart.
-Liz Scott, psychologist, author of This Never Happened
Nastashia Minto gifts the world with a personal story of honoring the body, healing through trauma, and the beauty of living in your skin. This collection is one that will stay with me for a long time.
-Zaji Cox, author of Plums for Months: Memories of a Wonder-Filled Neurodivergent Childhood
In this book you hold poems honest as steel, a memoir of loving survival, gratitude for life's tough gifts, and a handbook for recovery where hurt is intertwined with love. These poems will sweep you off your feet, and this voice will guide you forward toward resilience. These are spells to conjure your well-being. Let this healer sing to you.
-Kim Stafford, author of Singer Come from Afar
Nastashia Minto is the kind of poet who, with their extensive storytelling prowess, invites us to discover ourselves.
-Kesha Ajose Fisher, award-winning author of No God Like The Mother
Through these pages, Minto's voice leaps from the written word to the sung and spoken word with ease and truth. She refuses the suffocation of the over-culture, and instead chooses and claims the resuscitation of her inner culture, as she sings every tangled thread loose and into a new story of self.
-Jen Violi, author of Putting Makeup on Dead People
A Body Tangled in Time is a record-even a celebration-of the search, the struggle, to find one's self. Minto's writing, as always, balances the lyrical with the gut-punch.
-Stephen O'Donnell, author of half-light
Nastashia Minto's lyrical language will rearrange your heart cells.
-Anne Gudger, author of The Fifth Chamber
Through her incantatory poems and songs, Minto moves through the physical, emotional, mental, intuitional, and spiritual planes of her experience, transcending the barriers and limitations of time, traveling back through transatlantic trauma and the persistent existence of being a Black empowered dyke in America today.
-Kai Coggin, author of Mining for Stardust, Incandescent, and Wingspan