Book Synopsis Pick a Garnet to Sleep in features poems of loss, of resistance to injustice, of celebration of the natural world, and of appreciation of art and poetry itself. Begun during the pandemic, this book ultimately is unified by hope. Review Quotes Kim Shucks poetry restores the protagonism of true history and true champions in a world gone plastic and individual. Yet still, it is with the various speeds of kindness, her imagination makes us whole. The sacred that rumbles against all odds. Lighting all rooms with the truth that hegemony is famine. Watch her make the world new. -Tongo Eisen-Marti, Eighth Poet Laureate of San Francisco Kim Shuck is an original in what Walter Benjamin called the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. No memes occur in her new book of poetry, but look for fresh outlooks, like On Thursday I wear / Sapphires and lithium. This (federally enrolled) Cherokee and Polish-American person transcends expectations and enters mythic zones as she creates her own poetics. I read Shuck for inspiration to be my best self and to write better. Please join me. -Denise Low, Kansas poet laureate emerita, House of Grace, House of Blood The poems of Kim Shuck are vital. They are tenacious, exquisite, concise, unbounded, truthful, and bold as the last drops of ale, as our inevitable reckoning with death. -Stephen Meadows, poet laureate of El Dorado County