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Narrated by Susan Suntree, Kalani Queypo, Peter Coyote
Susan SuntreeUnabridged — 5 hours, 54 minutes
Narrated by Susan Suntree, Kalani Queypo, Peter Coyote
Susan SuntreeUnabridged — 5 hours, 54 minutes
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Sacred Sites is a singular and memorable account of the evolution of the Southern California landscape, reflecting the riches of both Native knowledge and Western scientific thought. In his foreword, read by Peter Coyote, Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gary Snyder writes that this book "brings us home." Carrying readers from the Big Bang to the present, poet Susan Suntree describes the origins of the universe, the shifting of tectonic plates, and an evolving array of plants and animals that give Southern California its unique features today. She and Native American actor, Kalani Queypo, recount the migration of humans into the region, where they settled, and how they lived. Reflecting Native peoples' views of their own histories and ways of life, Suntree and Queypo recount narratives and songs of the First People, unforgettable shamans, and revered heroes. Founded on meticulous research, Suntree offers a rare and poetic vision combining Western and indigenous thinking to create an ever-deepening sense of a place and its people.
“Sacred Sites honors the power and beauty of our indigenous heritage and homeland. By knowing our history, we better understand the present and our journey into the future.” Anthony Morales, tribal chair, Gabrielino Tongva Council of San Gabriel
“`Human beings are the ones who have the power, through their songs, to affect the balance of the world.' What an immensely beautiful book!” Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University, author of The Swerve, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award
"Rooted in diversity and complexity, what many of the best books are about." Los Angeles Times
Bonus: Peter Coyote reads anthropologist Lowell John Bean's introduction to Southern California Native American cultures.
“Susan Suntree’s mythopoetic Sacred Sites: The Secret History of Southern California weaves science, Native legend, and natural history into a two-hundred-plus-page poem. . . . [It comes] rooted in diversity and complexity, what many of the best books are about.”—David Ulin, Los Angeles Times
“‘Human beings are the ones who have the power, through their songs, to affect the balance of the world.’ What an immensely beautiful book!”—Stephen Greenblatt, Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University and author of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award
“I simply cannot express adequately my appreciation for Sacred Sites: The Secret History of Southern California. It is wonderful! So full of beauty and knowledge.”—Glen MacDonald, UCLA Distinguished Professor and John Muir Memorial Chair of Geography
“Written in the free-verse style of field composition, this text offers itself as both an archaic and modernist scripture for a scientific era, in which ‘dark energy’ shapes the ephemeral and permanent natural entities—the oceans, fields, mountains, and rivers—that flash across the reader’s eyes in dissociated leaps. The virtual absence of a self-referential speaker . . . makes this bardic chronicle sound more postmodern—informational, data-rich, a better fit for a generation seeking alternatives to the poetics of personal reference.”—Laurence Goldstein, in Poetry Los Angeles: Reading the Essential Poems of the City
“Sacred Sites is a glowing monument to the magic that trails behind each one of us humans, a sweet testament to imagination and whatever God we may acknowledge. I have nothing but respect and awe for this absolutely unique work of art.”—Carolyn See, author of Making a Literary Life: Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers
“Sacred Sites honors the power and beauty of our indigenous heritage and homeland. By knowing our history we better understand the present and our journey into the future.”—Anthony Morales, tribal chair, Gabrielino Tongva Council of San Gabriel
“After sailing through this triumph of literary montage the Southland will never seem the same—it has become Indian Country again.”—Peter Nabokov, professor of world arts and cultures at the University of California at Los Angeles and author of Where the Lightning Strikes: The Lives of American Indian Sacred Places
“Susan Suntree presents a readable and broadly accessible account of the history of the universe, Earth, and Southern California in this scholarly and creative blend of ancient myth and modern science.”—Raymond V. Ingersoll, professor of geology at the University of California, Los Angeles
“Susan Suntree demonstrates her love for the natural world along with her deep respect for the First Peoples of Southern California. The cultures of the Tongva and the Acjachemem are rich beyond measure and well documented in stories and traditions. We are not gone. We still exist. The wisdom and responsibility of being of the land is not taken lightly. Susan appreciates and supports this connection. Years of research and writing are shared with the reader.”—Rhonda Robles, member of the Acjachemem Nation
“A geological and cultural human history of Southern California in verse? Impossible, right? Not so, as this is exactly what California-born Susan Suntree has done. And to Suntree’s credit, her performance of this ‘impossible’ feat is not only competent, it shines.”—Thomas Crowe,Bloomsbury Review
"A history that is equal parts science and mythology, Sacred Sites offers a rare and poetic vision of a world composed of dynamic natural forces and mythic characters."—Sandy Amazeen, Monsters and Critics
"Suntree tells the story that is least often told, and for that alone readers can be grateful."—Brett Garcia Myhren, Western American Literature
“Meticulously researched geology, geography, history, and oral traditions are put in motion by a performer’s touch. . . . Sacred Sites is an outstanding literary work, combining science with the spirituality of Native oral traditions.”—Jurgita Antoine, Tribal College Journal
"A geological and cultural human history of Southern California in verse? Impossible, right? Not so, as this is exactly what California native Susan Suntree has done. And to Suntree''s credit, her performance of this "impossible" feat is not only competent, it shines."—Thomas Crowe, Bloomsbury Review
— Thomas Crowe
"A history that is equal parts science and mythology, Sacred Sites offers a rare and poetic vision of a world composed of dynamic natural forces and mythic characters."—Sandy Amazeen, Monsters and Critics
— Sandy Amazeen
| BN ID: | 2940173212382 |
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| Publisher: | Sacred Sites LLC |
| Publication date: | 02/22/2021 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
