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Podcast: Myth in the Mojave
Episode: Moon of Many Petals: A Conversation with Artist Poet Cindy Rinne
Description: “Sometimes I dream of hearing the wind.” From "Edges," Cindy RinneWhen the figures in a series of images that she was creating asked Cindy to tell their story, she listened. The result is Moon of Many Petals, a novel in verse that grew from Rinne’s conversation with the Muse. Set in Manzanar, one of the camps where Japanese-Americans were interned during WWII, the work is a moving meditation on home, exile, family, beauty, and the cost of intolerance. In this interview, Rinne talks about the genesis of the work and her process, and reads fr...