From inside cover quotes:
“Rich with stunning artwork that moves fragmented turmoil towards healing, Amid the Chaos offers a portrait of psyches undergoing biological and social pandemic, a time when the Earth has been ravaged and “sneezes have become as bullets,” when people working together to bridge chasmic schisms are met by bullets and other modes of murder, destruction, and death. For anyone who has been overwhelmed or unwilling to take this fully to heart, welcome to a long view: a historic view, a prophetic view. Welcome to a view from the depths, the heights, and within that can help you locate your own answers to agonizing questions: “Which is the right prayer? … Where is the love? … Can humankind ever find one single thing upon which to agree? … [can] we deal with the ever deepening and ever ripening wounds of our psyches?”
If we face how we’ve harmed each other, we can find our way to heal each other: “All of the Earth holds the memories of all ceremonies,” and Moore’s poems gift us with suggestions to enact this relatedness. Culminating poems clarify that Earth is the source of the answers She loans us. May they help us all, small aspects of the Mother that we are.”
- Menoukha Robin Case, co-author of Weaving the Legacy: Remembering Paula Gunn Allen and Introduction to Feminist Thought and Action: #WTF and How Did We Get Here, and author of Tidal River Sediment and Waiting to be Special