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The anthropological lyricism of Astral Tribal: Poems & Epics, immerses one simultaneously in the avant staccato of free verse and the hypnotic tradition of storytelling passed down through tribal fires. From minimalism to epic narrative, Author, Poet, Spoken Word Artist, Journey, is both brutally visceral and transcendentally centering in her accounting of the sociocultural subject matters and experiences exemplified in the realities of lives lived in the ethnographic margins of American society. As a lens, Astral Tribal: Poems & Epics unflinchingly brings into focus, oft-times obscured, dark matters, such as suicide, depression, and death and the impact of an unjust criminal system of racism and classism on targeted ethnocultures. Daring further, Journey dips irreversibly into the darker still, hush topics of incest and patricide as well as the tragic abandonment of the infant daughter of a single mother struggling to survive through prostitution. It is in no particular order that, almost mercifully, the reader is navigated to the soothing spaces between; where the indestructibility of Love embodies itself in gazes of lovers succumbed to the godliness of touch to the resuscitation of a mother's compassion in the midst of agony, and finally in the omniscient presence of ancestral empowerment as epitomized in the title epic, Astral Tribal. Written over a decades-long sojourn as co-conspirator participant and awkward observer of the marginalized sub societies, the selected works in Astral Tribal: Poems & Epics is a portrait, however, marred, however piercing, of a people, beautiful, bleeding and eternal.

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"""Astral Tribal is the work of generations. Journey is a poet/writer who, I believe, has lived many lifetimes, and collected many stories to be told. Her words invoke the great grandmother, the grandmother, the mother, and the child. Once you begin to open yourself to her words, you realize very quickly that you are listening to either a very old womon or a womon who does not live her entire life, on this earth, in this time or in her body. She exists elsewhere, her writing hints to me. Her wisdom and range of emotions are ethereal."" - E. Nina Jay Poet/Activist/Community Advocate. Author of Bricks, Blood, and Water and, Body of Rooms, Subject of the documentary Body of Rooms based on her book, Body of Rooms. 'When Spirit cries out for fire. Even begs for a gift. And it comes. You build an altar and honor Pele. Without question."" -Natasha Carrizosa Poet/ Writer/ Creative Writing Teacher/ Public Speaker. Winner of the National Award for Multi-Cultural Poet of the Year. Co-Author of Fire and Rain, Author of Crown ""Highly recommend!!! This book is filled with some of the most powerful and breathtaking words I've ever read in poetry form. It's rare as a reader to get such insight into so many different worlds that is powerful, heartfelt and raw. The writer, Journey Johnson, has an incredible way with words and telling stories of her experiences that make the reader feel like they're a part of her journey. -Kim Roseberry Creator/ Operator/ Photographer of SHEdriven Photography"

Astral Tribal is the work of generations. Journey is a poet/writer who, I believe, has lived many lifetimes, and collected many stories to be told. Her words invoke the great grandmother, the grandmother, the mother, and the child. Once you begin to open yourself to her words, you realize very quickly that you are listening to either a very old womon or a womon who does not live her entire life, on this earth, in this time or in her body. She exists elsewhere, her writing hints to me. Her wisdom and range of emotions are ethereal. - E. Nina Jay Poet/Activist

Astral Tribal is the work of generations. Journey is a poet/writer who, I believe, has lived many lifetimes, and collected many stories to be told. Her words invoke the great grandmother, the grandmother, the mother, and the child. Once you begin to open yourself to her words, you realize very quickly that you are listening to either a very old womon or a womon who does not live her entire life, on this earth, in this time or in her body. She exists elsewhere, her writing hints to me. Her wisdom and range of emotions are ethereal. - E. Nina Jay Poet/Activist/Community Advocate. Author of Bricks, Blood, and Water and, Body of Rooms, Subject of the documentary Body of Rooms based on her book, Body of Rooms. 'When Spirit cries out for fire. Even begs for a gift. And it comes. You build an altar and honor Pele. Without question. -Natasha Carrizosa Poet/ Writer/ Creative Writing Teacher/ Public Speaker. Winner of the National Award for Multi-Cultural Poet of the Year. Co-Author of Fire and Rain, Author of Crown Highly recommend!!! This book is filled with some of the most powerful and breathtaking words I've ever read in poetry form. It's rare as a reader to get such insight into so many different worlds that is powerful, heartfelt and raw. The writer, Journey Johnson, has an incredible way with words and telling stories of her experiences that make the reader feel like they're a part of her journey. -Kim Roseberry Creator/ Operator/ Photographer of SHEdriven Photography

Astral Tribal is the work of generations. Journey is a poet/writer who, I believe, has lived many lifetimes, and collected many stories to be told. Her words invoke the great grandmother, the grandmother, the mother, and the child. Once you begin to open yourself to her words, you realize very quickly that you are listening to either a very old womon or a womon who does not live her entire life, on this earth, in this time or in her body. She exists elsewhere, her writing hints to me. Her wisdom and range of emotions are ethereal. - E. Nina Jay Poet/Activist/Community Advocate. Author of Bricks, Blood, and Water and, Body of Rooms, Subject of the documentary Body of Rooms based on her book, Body of Rooms. 'When Spirit cries out for fire. Even begs for a gift. And it comes. You build an altar and honor Pele. Without question. -Natasha Carrizosa Poet/ Writer/ Creative Writing Teacher/ Public Speaker. Winner of the National Award for Multi-Cultural Poet of the Year. Co-Author of Fire and Rain, Author of Crown Highly recommend!!! This book is filled with some of the most powerful and breathtaking words I've ever read in poetry form. It's rare as a reader to get such insight into so many different worlds that is powerful, heartfelt and raw. The writer, Journey Johnson, has an incredible way with words and telling stories of her experiences that make the reader feel like they're a part of her journey. Kim Roseberry Creator/ Operator/ Photographer of SHEdriven Photography

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